Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Lesley Sharp

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Lesley Sharp is an English stage, film and television actress whose roles on British television include Clocking Off (2000–2001), Bob & Rose (2001) and Afterlife (2005–2006). She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for the 1997 film The Full Monty. Her other film appearances include Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1986), Naked (1993), Priest (1994), From Hell (2001) and Vera Drake (2004). Between 2011 and 2016, she starred as DC Janet Scott in the ITV drama Scott & Bailey.

English - Actress | Born: April 3, 1960

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With 'Before We Die,' the psychology of the characters and their relationships with one another was key.

Lesley Sharp

Sometimes I feel my glass is a bit half empty and I am a bit Eeyore-ish.

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If you start doing a television or a film job and you suddenly think it's a mistake - the director's horrible or the people you work with aren't very kind, or whatever - it's much easier to deal with because it's in bite-sized chunks. You do it, you go home.

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When I was in my 20s, I think there was a lot of really arcane male behaviour that wasn't even questioned.

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I just think that, you know, what young actors actors and actresses have to factor into their work is all of the social media and the pressures that come from social media and the scrutiny that they're under and so nothing goes under the radar.

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With adoption, there is a whole range of experiences, and a lot of it goes under the radar. There is too much icky stuff about it - all this stuff about people reunited, a sickly sentimentality about blood lines. For me, at least, life is much more ambiguous than that.

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The police genre is capable of holding and shaping many forms of storytelling.

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Just because I'm older, I'm not ready to ease off. I'm interested, I want to do stuff.

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Working with Mike Leigh is a process of distillation.

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And whether or not you're interested in opera or classical music or folk music or the theatre, I think that for a nation's health and well-being it's very important that the arts scene is supported.

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There is something quintessentially northern in my DNA, even though I've lived in London since I was 18.

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I do try to think if I can afford not to do something I don't want to do, and if I can, then I don't do it, that's for sure. But the consequence of that is that you can be unemployed, it can make you feel ghastly, because you wonder if you will ever work again.

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Learning lines is bloody boring.

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Because I think your twenties are really difficult, aren't they?

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Andrew Lincoln is an amazing actor and turned into a great friend.

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I love euro TV drama, there's some fantastic shows.

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When I was in Stephen Poliakoff's 'Playing With Trains,' someone wrote that I was 'moon-faced'. That taught me not to read my reviews.

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I think culture and art tell you what the soul of a nation is, and if we continue to chip away at the arts we are actually chipping away at our collective soul.

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My best feature is the color of my eyes, but I don't know where that comes from.

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Sometimes when I hear people talking about their families, or their relationships with their mothers and fathers, I hear it but it's not something I totally understand.

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You're immediately in a world of noir when you're watching shows like 'The Bridge' or 'The Killing.'

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I didn't want to be invisible. I don't know what I wanted to be, but it wasn't invisible.

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I don't like to generalize about men, but I do feel there's still a long way to go if we want a society that is civilized, kind and tolerant, not biased, bigoted, homophobic or racist.

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The really hard thing for both men and women is getting older: it becomes increasingly difficult to live a life based on uncertainty, disempowerment is written into the job description.

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I didn't want to be classified as a northern actress.

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I don't have the looks of angel, I don't have the body of a goddess, I'm kind of invisible.

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European shows are unafraid of investigating philosophical questions on behalf of their characters or elevating imagery or letting moments play out.

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The thing that gives me most pleasure is when I feel I've really engaged with my colleagues, other like-minded individuals, in getting something to work, and that I'm part of something.

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Everyone has a certain hand dealt to them and you just have to work out whether you can keep going. The thing is, I don't know what I would do if I didn't act.

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At times I am very self-critical and disappointed with my appearance, and there are other times I think, 'How lucky I am to be alive.'

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Really complicated, interesting women at the centre of very, very well written dramas - and that's what floats my boat.

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I don't dislike anything, but I am definitely finding the ageing process 'interesting' and not wholly comfortable.

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What's brilliant is having the opportunity to come to a piece of work with no preconceptions.

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I don't think I've ever gone home and not been able to shake it off. I like having my own life too much!

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All the Enid Blyton books - they opened my eyes to a bunch of kids living a life that was so far away from mine.

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I've got a big nose, and that's from my birth father.

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You can choose to go about your life attracting attention or deflecting it.

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My first idol was Dick Emery, this man on the telly who was a sexpot one minute, then a vicar with dodgy teeth. Transformation - I think that's what he represented to me.

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I don't know about you, but I certainly feel so battered by seeing people wearing masks. It's all we hear, all we talk about, so that actually when you watch TV, the last thing you want to see all the time is people wearing masks.

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I really think it would be useful if society stopped vilifying older women.

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That conversation about 'roles for women,' generally - 'roles for older women.' It's like, let's please not dig into that one any more, you know?

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Playgrounds are like microcosms of the world, aren't they? So you look around and you go, 'This is the world, is it? It doesn't work for me. I'm not the beautiful one, I'm not the popular one, I'm not the funny one. There are all these types and I'm not any of them.' And when you're not any of them, you're sort of invisible.

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I've worked with Gemma Jones before, so the opportunity to re-connect with her, and for us to play mother and daughter, was superb.

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'Scott and Bailey' was very much forensically interested in the ins and outs of the way they went about cracking a case from the point of something happening to how they managed to arrest someone.

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Going on stage is always a process that causes anxiety and nervousness.

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I'd love to be beyond beautiful, for it to be acknowledged that my face was a wonder - like Monica Bellucci or Sophia Loren.

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If drama school was like doing a BA, coming to the Court was like an MA or a PhD.

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What actors are involved in is a similar sort of psychological forensic examination of the characters they're playing. You try to have an idea about why somebody does what they do and you try not to be in judgmental about it. That is what psychologists and psychotherapists aim to do with their patients.

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Now I belong to this fantastic group called The London Writers Salon, which runs Monday to Friday with sessions in London, New York and L.A. and you can log in to them all and basically write in the company of 300 other people, with nobody chatting.

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I suppose I'm of the school of never explain, never complain.

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I've been so grateful for writing, and writers and, actually I would say that that is the cornerstone of my career, the writing. That's the truth of the work that I've done in theatre and it's definitely the case for the work that I've been lucky enough to do on screen.

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Being on stage is like running a marathon every night.

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I realized a few years ago that as an actress I'd signed myself up to a life of disempowerment. I'm always waiting for permission to do what I want to do.

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A girl at school once said to me, 'You are an overfed, under-washed farmhand.' I was 12.

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You get the best stuff when people are writing what they're really passionate about.

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I know Toby Jones very well, we've done yoga together in the past and get on very well. He's a fantastic actor, but also extremely good company, very witty, and smart.

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If you get involved with something on stage that makes you feel dreadful, that's a nightmare because you have to repeat it every night.

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My mum died when I was 15, unfortunately.

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I think what maybe starts out when you're younger as being something about slightly showing off or being given applause because people think that you're good at something, as you get older it becomes less about that and it becomes more about the fascination of why people do the things that they do.

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What was fantastic about 'Scott and Bailey' was the opportunity to engage with female characters that were absolutely committed to their working life but also had to cope with all of the outside stress and pressure of their real lives.

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