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I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.

My neighborhood in South London was very Dickensian.

It was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic - I expended a lot of frustration on that one.

I was terribly upset not to be in 'Dickensian,' so I pretend to look down on it. The part I should have played, Mrs. Gamp, is done brilliantly by Pauline Collins, but I entered this world for no other reason than to play that part.

As a child, I was fascinated by the stories of Dickens acting out everything in front of the mirror as he wrote it down. Later, when you approach his work as an actor, you notice how sayable the dialogue is.

Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile.

I was enamored with Charles Dickens as a kid, and his names blew me away.

Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.