Nicola Walker Quotes

Nicola Walker

Profession : Actress

Birth : May 15, 1970

Two of my dramas, 'Unforgotten' and 'River,' were airing at the same time, and Dad had read about my 'success' in a newspaper - he thought it was brilliant. I was thinking, 'Does this mean I'm going to be put in a box for a bit now?'

Nicola Walker

It's now become a joke in my family that as soon as I finish a job, I'm on a loop saying, 'I'm never going to work again' - it drives everyone mad!

Nicola Walker

'Unforgotten' was a bit of a no-brainer. I'm a big fan of crime dramas, but often the 'investigation' part goes much too smoothly - and you don't get that with this.

Nicola Walker

If you could make telly as good as radio, it would be amazing - audio can do things so easily that television can't.

Nicola Walker

I've only ever been on a long-runner with 'Spooks.'

Nicola Walker

'Spooks' was unique. It took up such a lot of your life - I think we did 10 episodes for the first few seasons. That's six months of your life.

Nicola Walker

'Spooks' was very much of its time and rather unique, so I was more than happy to be in that as a long-runner - because I think we won't have that sort of show again. I think it was really, really unusual.

Nicola Walker

'Collateral' poses lots of questions and does it within the format of a really good, tense thriller. It starts at a real pace, and it doesn't let go.

Nicola Walker

I would like to think that there are more women in positions of power, to actually get these projects off the ground that are more balanced, where the story is about men and women.

Nicola Walker

When the acting all dries up, I won't be going there - either to the police force or to the church. I'll have to think of something else!

Nicola Walker

I find the whole ceremony of marriage a bit like going to work. Putting on a lovely dress and make-up, learning lines, someone doing your hair.

Nicola Walker

There wasn't really anything I wanted to do other than acting, which is ridiculous because there were no actors in my family, and we didn't know anything about acting.

Nicola Walker

It was really unusual that the crews on 'Spooks' were a real mix of men and women, and you'd struggle to see many women with parts that weren't cliched back in the late '90s.

Nicola Walker

My dad always jokes that if I ever write an autobiography, which I'm not going to, it'll be called 'It's Tough in the Middle.'

Nicola Walker

I love being the first person to play a part. I really get a big thrill out of it.

Nicola Walker

The generation before me certainly told me that there would come a point when there were fewer parts, telling me to make hay while the sun shone. There was a time in my late thirties when I thought that it was something I had to get myself ready for, that things were going to slow down as I hit 40.

Nicola Walker

There aren't many shows that encompass roles for a seven-year-old to someone in their 50s.

Nicola Walker

We're all used to seeing a lot of cop shows, some of them brilliant, some of them very generic.

Nicola Walker

I completely respect the job our police do.

Nicola Walker

My husband is an actor, and we don't talk about acting at home.

Nicola Walker