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I was the first guest star asked to appear on 'Glee,' which we all know became huge.

Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.

Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.

It is fun to do the one-off guest stars on stuff.

The only guest star I really wanted to get but didn't was Bruce Springsteen.

I remember the guest stars who came, they were always trying to find a new plot for their characters because they wanted to stay. It was really a great working environment.

I was never that kind of star. I was never cast because I was gorgeous.

My very first role was the character of Barbara Winslow in the movie 'Marmaduke.' Up until that point, I had only done commercials. I had never done a guest star role or a series, and yet they cast me!

One of the tricky things about running a TV show is that you just never know how good the guest stars you cast on a weekly basis, how good they're going to be in the episode. Sometimes they surprise you in good ways and sometimes they surprise you in disappointing ways.

I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show recently and I was sat in the make-up chair chatting to a guy say next to me but I couldn't look round and see who it was, it was only when I got up I realised it had been Bryan Adams I'd been talking to!