Sarah Lancashire Quotes

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Sarah Lancashire

Profession : Actress

Birth : October 10, 1964

I never feel proud of anything I do really.

Sarah Lancashire

For me, it was much more important to continue to learn my craft as an actor and get a bit of flesh on the bones.

Sarah Lancashire

I think this country is terribly, horribly obsessed with age, and it really is just this country. If you're still living and breathing at 50, then count your blessings!

Sarah Lancashire

It's a joy doing 'Tango.' I'd do it till the day I die, frankly.

Sarah Lancashire

But I am Northern myself, and there is a certain rhythm of Northern speech that is very comical: that combination of the choice of language and the speech rhythm, which in itself is very funny.

Sarah Lancashire

I only did five or six weeks in 'Guys and Dolls,' and when I was 26 or so, I was in 'Blood Brothers' for a year on the West End, playing Linda, with Kiki Dee.

Sarah Lancashire

Now that I'm in my late 40s, I'm trying to make up for a little bit of lost musicals time.

Sarah Lancashire

I'm Lancashire by name, and Lancashire was where I grew up - in Oldham.

Sarah Lancashire

My father's family, I think, were mostly from Lancashire, but I don't know how far back we go. I think it's quite a few generations.

Sarah Lancashire

My family on my mother's side is Irish.

Sarah Lancashire

I am a tea connoisseur and my idea of absolute heaven is a tea shop.

Sarah Lancashire

Love is very complicated and it's never black and white, as I'm sure we all know in our lives.

Sarah Lancashire

Young people are often portrayed in a very negative and stereotypical manner.

Sarah Lancashire

I love swing, jazz, blues, standards. I love the American songbook, Gershwin, Berlin. It's all that. So I'm born in the wrong era and I just don't fit into the 21st century at all.

Sarah Lancashire

I just hold out for pieces where I immediately feel an emotional connection with a part.

Sarah Lancashire

I never get offered comedy.

Sarah Lancashire

Accents are interesting, because they very often inform the way a person moves.

Sarah Lancashire

I do find it quite difficult to complete a job and return to normality - it does take a bit of time to find my healthy place.

Sarah Lancashire

We don't necessarily hear about the fantastic things social services do, because it doesn't make very good drama.

Sarah Lancashire

'Kiri' reflects the society we're living in now, where everything has to be transparent and people are under so much pressure. The scrutiny is extraordinary and you really get a sense of panic emerging.

Sarah Lancashire