Lesley Sharp Quotes

Lesley Sharp

Profession : Actress

Birth : April 3, 1960

My father served in the Royal Scots Fusiliers for many years.

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I desperately wanted to go to drama school and after that I've always been delighted to be offered employment - to view everything that comes my way as a chance to get better.

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To some extent I'm always looking to see where I belong.

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Being northern is fantastic but the positive associations I have - about being from a hard-working, funny and friendly community - aren't always portrayed in that way.

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I'm very controlling. It's my worst habit. I'm also over organized, which means I end up telling my family what I want them to do at certain times, like when to get up, where to put their clothes and when they should have their breakfast.

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I think what's fabulous about 'Living the Dream' is that accidents happen to them and they've got dramas and pitfalls to get through, but they do it as a united pair.

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I think everybody, at some point, rather feels that they have to shake themselves up somehow.

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What I've done is I've started writing a novel, so that's my big adventure.

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I have a lot of friends who have nothing to do with the acting profession and they really liked seeing a woman of their age being represented on TV in what they felt to be a very realistic manner.

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Often the people who seem to be the ones who hold themselves together very well in the workplace are not as successful at home.

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It's a very tricky situation to be in when you're actually friends with someone but they're also your boss.

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I got on a train to London when I was 18 and never moved back.

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I had a fantastic father, Jack Sharp, and I will always carry him in my heart as my father.

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With adoption, there is a whole range of experiences, and a lot of it goes under the radar. There is too much icky stuff about it - all this stuff about people reunited, a sickly sentimentality about blood lines. For me, at least, life is much more ambiguous than that.

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I'm certainly old enough to be a grandmother. I think it's interesting that it should be an issue, that being seen as a grandmother should be terrifying to women.

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We can't all have faces like Elizabeth Taylor or Angelina Jolie.

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I learned a lot from Russell T. Davies, who is the most wonderful writer.

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If you're adopted, you can't help but feel, somehow or other, deep, deep, deep down inside that you don't belong. It makes you feel like you've got a question mark inside you.

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I don't have the looks of angel, I don't have the body of a goddess, I'm kind of invisible.

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