Kelly Macdonald
Kelly Macdonald

Most of my memories are the sound of rain on caravan roofs.

Kelly Macdonald
Kelly Macdonald

New Mexico was such a strange place; it was like filming on Mars.

Kelly Macdonald
Kelly Macdonald

When I started acting I knew nothing. It was a momentous decision to pick up the flyer for the 'Trainspotting' audition. 'Destined' is a bit of a poncy word for it, but I do think I was headed in that direction.

Kelly Macdonald
Kelly Macdonald

L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of.

Kelly Macdonald
Kelly Macdonald

They're naughty, all those writers - they mess around with people. I know James Gandolfini got a bit fed up on 'The Sopranos': if he said anything in front of a writer, told them a story from his life, it could make its way into the script.

Kelly Macdonald
Kelly Macdonald

I don't think I've been shy in the past. Young and uncomfortable, maybe. But shy? It has become this annoying term that I've been lumbered with.

Kelly Macdonald
Kelly Macdonald

I've done TV and I've done film, and I'm not snobby about it. It's about the project.

Kelly Macdonald
Kelly Macdonald

I get claustrophobic in a harness. I'd be a terrible superhero.

Kelly Macdonald
Kelly Macdonald

It's that TV thing. You can be in the biggest film of the year and it will still not have the kind of impact a TV series has. Once you're in people's living rooms, that's it. There's no hiding place.

Kelly Macdonald
Kelly Macdonald

It felt like a series of coincidences and luck that I ended up getting the part in 'Trainspotting,' but it's been an incredible journey since then. Every now and then, I sit and really think about it, and it blows my mind. I have to stop because I don't want my brain to implode.

Kelly Macdonald
Kelly Macdonald

I don't lobby where work is concerned. As long as I know I've got something coming up, I don't really worry. It's not that I'm not ambitious, but I don't have a drive to be hugely successful and be working all the time.

Kelly Macdonald
Kelly Macdonald

I've done a few American accents. I've maybe passed a test. But I don't know if it makes things easier or not.

Kelly Macdonald
Kelly Macdonald

I walk away from jobs generally feeling good about it and that I've done a good job. And it's always slightly deflating when I see the film thing because it's still me up there.

Kelly Macdonald
Kelly Macdonald

What I'm normally associated with are darker, more brooding roles.

Kelly Macdonald
Kelly Macdonald

I love that thing on Amazon that you can go on and order a book, and you click on it and it says, 'You might also like,' or 'Other people who bought this have bought that.'

Kelly Macdonald
Kelly Macdonald

I'm no good at anecdotes.

Kelly Macdonald
Kelly Macdonald

It was both comforting and terrifying to go in to audition for 'The Girl in the Cafe,' as I'd worked with everyone in the room on 'State Of Play.'

Kelly Macdonald
Kelly Macdonald

It can get a bit boring working on accents.

Kelly Macdonald
Kelly Macdonald

I tend to get cast as a certain type of quiet, almost introverted person who's strong on the inside, but the characters are so very different I don't see it as any kind of typecasting.

Kelly Macdonald
Kelly Macdonald

I'm so not a celebrity.