Nicola Walker Quotes

Nicola Walker

Profession : Actress

Birth : May 15, 1970

My two great fears are either not working or working on something that means you can't do something else you really want.

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I noticed that, on 'Spooks,' there were a lot of women behind the camera and in different departments.

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When I'm not working, as a family we are obsessed with jumping off rocks into the sea and doing dangerous things.

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My husband says I'm a grumpy lioness.

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The people I've met who are divorce lawyers, there's a sense of them having to look reassuringly expensive.

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I started when I was 21, and it was always about getting the next job - like most actors, that's all it's ever been for me.

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I wish someone had got hold of me and said, 'You know, children are really good fun. You will have a fantastic time, and you will still work.'

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It always makes me laugh to think that I get to sit around and chat with people like Anne Reid and Derek Jacobi and get paid for it.

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I have to admit to the occasional need for 'Come Dine with Me.' I am the most atrocious cook, and that's probably why I find it so entertaining. It looks exotic to me.

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Once I was asked to do celebrity rowing, where they taught people who had been to Oxford or Cambridge to row against each other. That sounded like too much hard work: really early mornings and having to be quite fit, which I'm not.

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When you're a kid, you imagine acting to be singing and fighting and like the movies. Then you become an actor and get the reality, which is often a lot more mundane. But sometimes it's really nice to run around with guns saving the world.

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My family moved out of London's East End to a tiny village. The school I went to was supposed to be mixed gender, but there were hardly any boys born that year. So, yes, joining a youth theatre was a fun way to meet the opposite sex!

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I come from a family of scrap metal dealers, so becoming an actor seemed like a ridiculous thing to do, but I'd found the thing that gave me a kick, and I quickly became obsessed with it.

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Before I had my son, I became obsessed by this painting I'd seen in an art gallery. It was a lot of money, but I felt such a rush of adrenaline when I wrote the cheque to buy it. I thought I was going to gaze lovingly at it forever, but after just two weeks, I realised I didn't really like it any more.

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People very rarely know my real name but recognise me as characters from my shows, such as 'Last Tango In Halifax.'

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I've always had a resting expression that either makes me look deep in thought or as though I'm about to fight you. I've lost count of the number of directors asking me what the problem is when all I'm doing is sitting still and being.

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I live in dread that I might find myself in some sort of emergency, and everyone will turn to me and expect me to know what the correct procedures are.

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It can be tough to turn things down, but as an actor, being in demand is a nice problem to have.

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I could never be anyone I've played. I am so not a detective; I can barely get 200 yards from A to B with the help of Google maps, and I am just about the least observant person on the planet, so I never notice what people look like or how they walk or if they're committing a crime in broad daylight.

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It's totally different playing a lawyer and a detective.

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