Lesley Sharp Quotes

Lesley Sharp

Profession : Actress

Birth : April 3, 1960

You have to know what you're doing, you have to be experienced. You can't just say, 'I'm an actress in 'Scott & Bailey,' I'm going to write an episode.'

Lesley Sharp

I've got a big nose, and that's from my birth father.

Lesley Sharp

I met my birth mother as an adult, but she was always quite vague about my birth father. I knew he had been married to someone else, that he'd had children, but that was about it.

Lesley Sharp

Now I belong to this fantastic group called The London Writers Salon, which runs Monday to Friday with sessions in London, New York and L.A. and you can log in to them all and basically write in the company of 300 other people, with nobody chatting.

Lesley Sharp

I suppose I'm of the school of never explain, never complain.

Lesley Sharp

I don't dislike anything, but I am definitely finding the ageing process 'interesting' and not wholly comfortable.

Lesley Sharp

I didn't want to be classified as a northern actress.

Lesley Sharp

I don't like to generalize about men, but I do feel there's still a long way to go if we want a society that is civilized, kind and tolerant, not biased, bigoted, homophobic or racist.

Lesley Sharp

I do try to think if I can afford not to do something I don't want to do, and if I can, then I don't do it, that's for sure. But the consequence of that is that you can be unemployed, it can make you feel ghastly, because you wonder if you will ever work again.

Lesley Sharp

Just because I'm older, I'm not ready to ease off. I'm interested, I want to do stuff.

Lesley Sharp

If you start doing a television or a film job and you suddenly think it's a mistake - the director's horrible or the people you work with aren't very kind, or whatever - it's much easier to deal with because it's in bite-sized chunks. You do it, you go home.

Lesley Sharp

If you get involved with something on stage that makes you feel dreadful, that's a nightmare because you have to repeat it every night.

Lesley Sharp

Sometimes when I hear people talking about their families, or their relationships with their mothers and fathers, I hear it but it's not something I totally understand.

Lesley Sharp

Everyone has a certain hand dealt to them and you just have to work out whether you can keep going. The thing is, I don't know what I would do if I didn't act.

Lesley Sharp

The thing that gives me most pleasure is when I feel I've really engaged with my colleagues, other like-minded individuals, in getting something to work, and that I'm part of something.

Lesley Sharp

I love euro TV drama, there's some fantastic shows.

Lesley Sharp

Really complicated, interesting women at the centre of very, very well written dramas - and that's what floats my boat.

Lesley Sharp

I just think that, you know, what young actors actors and actresses have to factor into their work is all of the social media and the pressures that come from social media and the scrutiny that they're under and so nothing goes under the radar.

Lesley Sharp

I think what maybe starts out when you're younger as being something about slightly showing off or being given applause because people think that you're good at something, as you get older it becomes less about that and it becomes more about the fascination of why people do the things that they do.

Lesley Sharp

Sometimes I feel my glass is a bit half empty and I am a bit Eeyore-ish.

Lesley Sharp