Sarah Lancashire Quotes

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Sarah Lancashire

Profession : Actress

Birth : October 10, 1964

The work I like to do is the work I'm most afraid of.

Sarah Lancashire

I do have a slightly rebellious streak in me, I'm afraid.

Sarah Lancashire

I think women have not been terribly kind to other women for a very long time.

Sarah Lancashire

I can tell very early on, reading a script, within six or seven pages, whether I'm looking at real people, and whether I can see and hear real people.

Sarah Lancashire

I think Jack Thorne is an exceptional writer.

Sarah Lancashire

Anyone who has to be accountable in a time when resources are shrinking, where transparency is necessary, where the pressures are greater, is going to find that it takes a toll.

Sarah Lancashire

I'm not terribly good at being around work I don't care about!

Sarah Lancashire

I've learnt that it's possible to be as anonymous as you want. It's a choice, and I've become very, very good at being anonymous.

Sarah Lancashire

My father was a TV scriptwriter. He would perform his dialogue out loud, while my mum transcribed it at the typewriter. So I grew up thinking that plucking characters out of the air was an extremely normal way to behave.

Sarah Lancashire

It's too easy to underestimate your audience. But it's not rocket science: bad plays don't get people on seats; good plays do.

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I think all writers have a style, a particular voice and rhythm that you have to find.

Sarah Lancashire

When you receive a script and it leaps out at you and it's breathing with its own heartbeat - I suppose when you read something like that it's not a choice of whether you do it or don't. It feels like it chooses you, so you just do it.

Sarah Lancashire

I suppose trying not to fancy Richard Gere - that's been quite hard!

Sarah Lancashire

Two of the best roles I've ever had have happened in my late 40s.

Sarah Lancashire

It started at 49 with 'Tango in Halifax' and then 'Happy Valley.' I can't complain at a time when most actors are disappearing. I seem to have become very visible.

Sarah Lancashire

It's wonderful when you happen across it as an actor, finding a young actor that is literally just starting out and you understand that to them the craft is the most important aspect of the job.

Sarah Lancashire

The writing is only ever the attractive thing about a part. And also if all the elements within the writing come together - the character and the structure and the narrative - if they are all there then you become excited.

Sarah Lancashire

I don't like comparing projects. I find it too difficult because I can't objectively look at a piece when I'm so subjectively involved it.

Sarah Lancashire

I have to work at my own speed.

Sarah Lancashire

Acting is a subtle combination of hiding and revealing yourself, and as I'm not an extrovert, this is painful for me.

Sarah Lancashire