Sarah Lancashire Quotes

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Sarah Lancashire

Profession : Actress

Birth : October 10, 1964

I don't like talking about me. I only speak when I have something to say and won't share my personality.

Sarah Lancashire

Soaps are a double-edged sword. There can be prejudice from some writers and producers who feel you will lower the currency of their work if you've been in one. You have to rise above such ludicrous prejudice.

Sarah Lancashire

I need to grow as an actor. The wonderful thing is you never stop learning, and as my only interest is trying to perfect what I do, it's wonderful because I'll never succeed, so I'll have to keep working.

Sarah Lancashire

Working on 'The Paradise' is like putting on a comfy overcoat.

Sarah Lancashire

Watching your own work doesn't get any easier.

Sarah Lancashire

Sometimes it's necessary for soaps to hang on to an audience by sensationalizing, but it's a beast I don't understand any more, an art form that has fostered extraordinary talent. It's a great arena to learn your craft before you move on.

Sarah Lancashire

I won't say I'll never go back to a soap because an actor's life is so precarious. You can have the most wonderful patch where everyone wants to work with you, and in the blink of an eye the phone won't ring for a month, even a year.

Sarah Lancashire

There's some truth that roles for older women are harder to come by, but it's wrong for actors to monopolise the ageist thing.

Sarah Lancashire

I would never condone anything which I thought was salacious, titillating, or gratuitous.

Sarah Lancashire

You start out with scripts pre-written, with no specific actor in mind, so you've got to build a character on top of that foundation. It's not just lifting words off the page, it's constructing a history around them as well.

Sarah Lancashire

It's down to the actors to show the writers the potential of the character.

Sarah Lancashire

Celebrity and actor are two completely different professions, and I don't believe that they mix if you want to maintain any sort of credibility.

Sarah Lancashire

In my early days depression did inhibit me because I was too debilitated and terrified to tell anyone why I couldn't get on a train from Manchester for auditions in London.

Sarah Lancashire

Actors are bloody marvelous at hiding.

Sarah Lancashire

My twenties were a write-off.

Sarah Lancashire

I'm straight, but it's immaterial what your sexuality is. Isn't it really just about being a fulfilled human being?

Sarah Lancashire

Love is love. It doesn't matter about sexuality, it's just about how you feel towards somebody else and being good and honest with them.

Sarah Lancashire

I am possibly the biggest 'Downton' fan you can ever meet.

Sarah Lancashire

I don't watch anything I'm in. I'm too critical.

Sarah Lancashire

When I'm working in theatre I never go to the bar with the other actors; I go home and think about what I did wrong.

Sarah Lancashire