Lesley Sharp Quotes

Lesley Sharp

Profession : Actress

Birth : April 3, 1960

I think there are some people who have those childhoods that are really bad and so what happens is that they find an escape through pretending to be other people.

Lesley Sharp

I felt desperately sad, because it's a real shock in the 21st century, where we're fortunate to live in amazing country like the U.K., that there are areas where young women feel so desperate about what their future should be.

Lesley Sharp

Male actors don't get asked about playing strong men; they're just men.

Lesley Sharp

We're 50 per cent of the population so it's appropriate we're reflected everywhere as people who take part in society in a really proactive way - that women aren't just reactive, they're out there doing stuff.

Lesley Sharp

I don't think anyone's interested particularly in watching stuff that's just about two-dimensional characters anymore.

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Well, I live in the U.K. in 2017 and I'm like every woman in this country who flips through supplements and magazines - I'm bombarded with pictures of so-called perfection.

Lesley Sharp

Sometimes I feel very bullish about it - this is the age that I am, this is the way that I look, there's nothing I can do about it and I'm grateful that I've lived this long.

Lesley Sharp

My career was never built on being a great beauty so it's not like I look back at being 25 and I'm shuddering because that youthfulness has gone.

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The way you look, the way you sound, is always something that you have to circumnavigate.

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I always felt my life wasn't going to start until I finished school.

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I do bikram yoga as often as I can - and if I can't, I'll go for a run.

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I feel pretty disillusioned about the politics and politicians in this country - and angry.

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I want to stay open. I don't want to shut down the possibility of new ideas, new ways of seeing the world.

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I'm an actress, not a politician. And my private life is my private life.

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That's the thing about 'Three Girls' I found most upsetting. Young women feel their only options are to hook up with guys who've got vodka and cigarettes because they can't actually imagine a future that's any different. That's terrible.

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You have to talk about the things that make you sad and angry, that you feel could be changed, and you have to listen.

Lesley Sharp

I think as a police officer when you're dealing with a member of the public you put something on because you have to appear to be this person who knows what they're talking about, and of course you're also trying to figure out the Rubik's cube of why people behave in the way that they do.

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If you get hung up on the history of a part then you're on a hiding to nothing.

Lesley Sharp

It's very important to do things that you believe in - if you're bored by what you do, try something else.

Lesley Sharp

You might be able to mimic other styles but what's important is that you are true to who you are. You have to find your own voice.

Lesley Sharp