The thing that made 'M*A*S*H' so good was the fact that we did have those relationships off-camera and took them on-camera.
It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.
I don't kiss on screen. Period.
My mom was on a soap opera for 40 years, so I know about love and romance.
The entire unit of 'Saath Phere' is like an extended family for me.
The Neighbours cast is like a second family.
Soap operas are like acting boot camps.
I stay in touch with a lot of the cast - Jess Fox, Jen Metcalfe and Nikki Sanderson and probably more that I've missed out. It's a cliche, but it really is like a family at 'Hollyoaks.'
I don't think about how many times how many heroines have said 'I love you' to how many heroes on screen and that I am also doing the same. It is how differently I can say the same thing in my own style or how I can bring a new element into it.
I've played so many moms, best friends, sisters and understanding people.
What they say about TV shows is true. You're really a family. You laugh, you fight, you get close, you know? Movies are shorter. They're over quicker. You don't form the same bonds.
I've done so many movies and TV that you get to be friends with everyone.
You don't even really get used to doing scenes where you have to kiss, or be particularly intimate, with another person who's not actually your lover in real life.
If you're doing television, you get to be a character for a long time, and the cast around you becomes like family. You get attached to playing that one character, and it's hard leaving them behind.
I've had some great times with actresses, but that's in a movie.
I politely refuse to be part of movies where I have to do sister or sister-in-law to protagonists.
My years on 'Family Matters' were precious to me. During the run of the show, I saw many births, deaths, weddings... The actual family on the show became my family.
