Lesley Sharp Quotes

Lesley Sharp

Profession : Actress

Birth : April 3, 1960

All the Enid Blyton books - they opened my eyes to a bunch of kids living a life that was so far away from mine.

Lesley Sharp

A girl at school once said to me, 'You are an overfed, under-washed farmhand.' I was 12.

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I don't think I've ever gone home and not been able to shake it off. I like having my own life too much!

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If drama school was like doing a BA, coming to the Court was like an MA or a PhD.

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When I was in my 20s, I think there was a lot of really arcane male behaviour that wasn't even questioned.

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I realized a few years ago that as an actress I'd signed myself up to a life of disempowerment. I'm always waiting for permission to do what I want to do.

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The police genre is capable of holding and shaping many forms of storytelling.

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You're immediately in a world of noir when you're watching shows like 'The Bridge' or 'The Killing.'

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European shows are unafraid of investigating philosophical questions on behalf of their characters or elevating imagery or letting moments play out.

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With 'Before We Die,' the psychology of the characters and their relationships with one another was key.

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You can choose to go about your life attracting attention or deflecting it.

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There is something quintessentially northern in my DNA, even though I've lived in London since I was 18.

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My first idol was Dick Emery, this man on the telly who was a sexpot one minute, then a vicar with dodgy teeth. Transformation - I think that's what he represented to me.

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The really hard thing for both men and women is getting older: it becomes increasingly difficult to live a life based on uncertainty, disempowerment is written into the job description.

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Being on stage is like running a marathon every night.

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Learning lines is bloody boring.

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When I was in Stephen Poliakoff's 'Playing With Trains,' someone wrote that I was 'moon-faced'. That taught me not to read my reviews.

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What's brilliant is having the opportunity to come to a piece of work with no preconceptions.

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What actors are involved in is a similar sort of psychological forensic examination of the characters they're playing. You try to have an idea about why somebody does what they do and you try not to be in judgmental about it. That is what psychologists and psychotherapists aim to do with their patients.

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I think culture and art tell you what the soul of a nation is, and if we continue to chip away at the arts we are actually chipping away at our collective soul.

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