Nicola Walker Quotes

Nicola Walker

Profession : Actress

Birth : May 15, 1970

When you're both actors, it is feast or famine financially and emotionally in your marriage.

Nicola Walker

'The Split' is actually really hopeful - although it's left me reeling slightly, thinking about what we do to each other in the name of love, within the contract of marriage.

Nicola Walker

'Better do it than wish it done,' is a phrase ingrained in my mind.

Nicola Walker

My make-up call as Cassie on 'Unforgotten' is 45 minutes, and on 'The Split', it's considerably longer. They have to do your hair and your make-up. On 'Unforgotten,' I'm in and out, and I don't have to worry about how I sit for the whole day so as not to crease the clothes.

Nicola Walker

I'm married to a vegetarian, so if ever we go out to dinner, I go for kidneys.

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When I bought my first little flat, it was two bedrooms, so I got Sarah Phelps to live with me. My years-later-to-be husband was slightly thinking, 'Why are you inviting your friends to live with you?' I was very resistant to leaving my friends.

Nicola Walker

I'm a proper Essex girl because my family was part of that great exodus from the East End.

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Cornwall is my favourite place - I wish I could earn a living there.

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My two girlfriends from university, Sue Perkins and Sarah Phelps, are both in the business - and are both stupidly busy. We talk on the phone a lot and try to get out to dinner together, but our preferred venue is one of our kitchens with a lot of tea.

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I found myself at Cambridge, loved my course, and met these amazing people who got me heavily involved. I presumed I would have to go to drama school, but I did a play with my uni friends, who were doing lots of pub theatre in London, and through that met my agent. She said 'Don't go to drama school. I'll get you a job' and two weeks later she did.

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I just want to carry on doing high-quality work.

Nicola Walker

Once you've sat in a room annoying Derek Jacobi while he's trying to do his crossword, you're prepped for working with the greats.

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There are a lot of women - directors, producers, writers - involved in my career. They are all interested in telling good stories, and good stories involve men and women.

Nicola Walker

When you're working, you're in the present, but you've always got one eye on where your next job might be coming from, and I don't think that will ever go away.

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At home, people very rarely recognise me.

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I get quite fearful about interviews, so I sought advice from other actors.

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We bought a sofa with the money I made from 'Thunderbirds,' and I've still got it, and we call it Thunderbird 1. That's literally all I got out of the job.

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I'd do anything with Tom Courtenay.

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As I get older, I get happier.

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I am very good at keeping secrets, except when I am drunk, when I will tell you absolutely anything.

Nicola Walker