Lesley Sharp Quotes

Lesley Sharp

Profession : Actress

Birth : April 3, 1960

And whether or not you're interested in opera or classical music or folk music or the theatre, I think that for a nation's health and well-being it's very important that the arts scene is supported.

Lesley Sharp

Going on stage is always a process that causes anxiety and nervousness.

Lesley Sharp

Working with Mike Leigh is a process of distillation.

Lesley Sharp

Andrew Lincoln is an amazing actor and turned into a great friend.

Lesley Sharp

What was fantastic about 'Scott and Bailey' was the opportunity to engage with female characters that were absolutely committed to their working life but also had to cope with all of the outside stress and pressure of their real lives.

Lesley Sharp

'Scott and Bailey' was very much forensically interested in the ins and outs of the way they went about cracking a case from the point of something happening to how they managed to arrest someone.

Lesley Sharp

I don't know about you, but I certainly feel so battered by seeing people wearing masks. It's all we hear, all we talk about, so that actually when you watch TV, the last thing you want to see all the time is people wearing masks.

Lesley Sharp

I've been so grateful for writing, and writers and, actually I would say that that is the cornerstone of my career, the writing. That's the truth of the work that I've done in theatre and it's definitely the case for the work that I've been lucky enough to do on screen.

Lesley Sharp

You get the best stuff when people are writing what they're really passionate about.

Lesley Sharp

My mum died when I was 15, unfortunately.

Lesley Sharp

Because I think your twenties are really difficult, aren't they?

Lesley Sharp

That conversation about 'roles for women,' generally - 'roles for older women.' It's like, let's please not dig into that one any more, you know?

Lesley Sharp

I've worked with Gemma Jones before, so the opportunity to re-connect with her, and for us to play mother and daughter, was superb.

Lesley Sharp

I know Toby Jones very well, we've done yoga together in the past and get on very well. He's a fantastic actor, but also extremely good company, very witty, and smart.

Lesley Sharp

My best feature is the color of my eyes, but I don't know where that comes from.

Lesley Sharp

I'd love to be beyond beautiful, for it to be acknowledged that my face was a wonder - like Monica Bellucci or Sophia Loren.

Lesley Sharp

At times I am very self-critical and disappointed with my appearance, and there are other times I think, 'How lucky I am to be alive.'

Lesley Sharp

Playgrounds are like microcosms of the world, aren't they? So you look around and you go, 'This is the world, is it? It doesn't work for me. I'm not the beautiful one, I'm not the popular one, I'm not the funny one. There are all these types and I'm not any of them.' And when you're not any of them, you're sort of invisible.

Lesley Sharp

I didn't want to be invisible. I don't know what I wanted to be, but it wasn't invisible.

Lesley Sharp

You know when actors are very shy and self-effacing? Well, I really love it when people like my work, but I'm also really embarrassed about it. It's strange. And a bit pathetic really.

Lesley Sharp