Kelly Macdonald

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

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.

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.

The people on programmes like 'Made in Chelsea' just want to be celebrities. It's so depressing. No proper actor has that as a goal. I'm striving for longevity in my career.

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

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.

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.

I've always been pretty self-sufficient. I never had to borrow money from my mum, even in the early days.

I find just being on set embarrassing. Mortifying. And that's with all my clothes on.

I'm so not a celebrity.

I'm no good at anecdotes.

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