Michelle Ryan Quotes

I figured that the community would step up and really try to help out and they have. We had originally planned for needing to find space for a lot more than this.

If they feel they`re not there on merit that can also have very bad implications. It`s really about getting the balance, about being active but also retaining the appearance that everyone is qualified and doing a good job.

We were getting five, six phone calls an hour going, `Oh my God, you`re closing?`

They gave us a bit of a scare there,

It`s very difficult to have quotas for women because you have to be careful how they`re evaluated and how the public views that as well,

Scandinavian (food) doesn`t tend to have a lot of the spicy spices, the hot spices. This is quite different from those flavors and I like to show the contrast.

They`re all portal communities out in the Nordic area, so fish is a big part of their diet.

“I love doing my own stunts. There is one in a museum where I leap down 50 feet on a wire, head first. Looking down over the cast and crew was scary, but you get over that. In another scene they throw me down a well and there were no wires involved that time. I had to fall flat on my face.” - on filming Doctor Who.

"Christina is sexy and glamorous, but she’s also a tomboy and very independent. She’s always chasing the next adventure, the next high. And because the Doctor is charismatic and fearless too, I think they’re an excellent match.”

"That’s completely untrue. I have never auditioned for the role of the Doctor’s assistant in the past. And I’m not in talks about becoming the new assistant. I’m just enjoying the freedom I have to play a variety of roles. Playing Christina is perfect: she’s a special guest who could return. At the moment, when it comes to acting, I’m a bit of a commitment-phobe.”

"Bionic Woman changed direction too much from episode to episode, “which I think is why it lost momentum. But the whole experience was amazing, living in Vancouver, having my own place. It opened up my world. I remember when we shot the trailer in LA the crew had to close off a road because the scene involved a helicopter, a fire engine and an upturned police car. I remember jumping on the police car and had a moment of: ‘OK, I think I’ve landed in Hollywood.’”

"I like to hang out with my friends, go to the theatre, watch DVDs, read, play with my niece. I recently went to the Natural History Museum to see an exhibition on Darwin and someone came up to me and said, ‘Ooh, so why are you here?’ I just told them that I like exhibitions.”

"I am still ambitious but not as much as I used to be before Bionic Woman. I’m more go-with-the-flow now. Although when a role comes along that I really love – like sprinting across alien sand-dunes with Doctor Who – it will fire me up again.”

"It was really great fun. I'd normally played wicked girls who have a bad side or a dark side but Nimeuh is really evil. I mean she has been treated badly in the past but she's still a bitch." - on Merlin.