Alex Kingston: "Cutest co-star? I'd say it's Rocket Romano, Paul McCrane."
Alex Kingston: "I like to buy the things that everybody else picks up, laughs at, and puts down."
Alex Kingston: "A lot of my English girlfriends find Greene the sexy heartthrob, not Ross. Those glasses, that hair...He looks almost English and willowy."
Alex Kingston on the possibilty of getting pregnant: "I suppose I could just wear scrubs all the time. You look pregnant in them anyway!"
Laura Innes (Dr. Kerry Weaver) on Alex: "She's a wonderful person - a great balance of talent, charm, intelligence and a bit of goofyness you can't beat."
Alex Kingston on co-star Paul McCrane (Robert Romano): "That's a fun relationship to play. Paul and I do have marvelous chemistry. I don't know what it is. We just click. I'm so impressed that he's able to make Romano a character people love to hate, rather than a character they simply hate. And because Paul himself is such a nice man, some of his own warmth shines through, even though he could be saying the worst imaginable things."
Alex Kingston: "If you really follow ER, you'll notice that Noah Wyle who plays Dr Carter and I get all the long words because the others can't spit them out. The other day I had such a long word it took up half a page on the script."
Alex Kingston on fans mistaking her for a real doctor: "They'll give me details of what their doctor has prescribed, and ask me if the medication is something that I would administer. I send a photograph and a letter saying thanks for watching the show."
Alex Kingston on Elizabeth's motherhood: "I was forever holding the baby in one arm and shouting at Mark or Rachel. And the baby inevitably would scream. That really upset me - there is no way that I would raise my voice while I'm holding my baby.These poor children I worked with - they'd catch one look at me and start crying because they knew what was coming. In the end they had to change the babies."
"She's learning to be a mother, which actually I am as well, but I'm a very different mother to Elizabeth Corday. There are a lot of things she does that I don't agree with. Sometimes I've wanted to say to the writers 'Lets not do that,' but then I thought, no she's a different character, she's not me... Often she'd be holding the baby, who'd be crying and she'd be screaming and shouting at her husband, and seemed to be oblivious and would carry on arguing. I would never do that. Of course it's men who are writing these scenes. Then at the same time I just thought it shows a side to Dr Corday - that she's not comfortable being a mother, and she wasn't brought up very well by her own mother - well, let's explore that. So I stopped resisting what they were writing."
Alex on playing Elizabeth: "I know her so well now, and it's fun to choose how she will react in each given situation."
Alex, when asked who would win, Sherry Stringfield's character (Susan) or hers: "Mine, of course. Elizabeth can kick ass!"
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