Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Lesley Sharp - Page 2

Sometimes I feel very bullish about it - this is the age that I am, this is the way that I look, there's nothing I can do about it and I'm grateful that I've lived this long.

The way you look, the way you sound, is always something that you have to circumnavigate.

My father served in the Royal Scots Fusiliers for many years.

If you get hung up on the history of a part then you're on a hiding to nothing.

I felt desperately sad, because it's a real shock in the 21st century, where we're fortunate to live in amazing country like the U.K., that there are areas where young women feel so desperate about what their future should be.

Being northern is fantastic but the positive associations I have - about being from a hard-working, funny and friendly community - aren't always portrayed in that way.

If you're adopted, you can't help but feel, somehow or other, deep, deep, deep down inside that you don't belong. It makes you feel like you've got a question mark inside you.

Often the people who seem to be the ones who hold themselves together very well in the workplace are not as successful at home.

I feel pretty disillusioned about the politics and politicians in this country - and angry.

I want to stay open. I don't want to shut down the possibility of new ideas, new ways of seeing the world.

You know when actors are very shy and self-effacing? Well, I really love it when people like my work, but I'm also really embarrassed about it. It's strange. And a bit pathetic really.

I always felt my life wasn't going to start until I finished school.

I think there are some people who have those childhoods that are really bad and so what happens is that they find an escape through pretending to be other people.

I do bikram yoga as often as I can - and if I can't, I'll go for a run.

I'm certainly old enough to be a grandmother. I think it's interesting that it should be an issue, that being seen as a grandmother should be terrifying to women.

My career was never built on being a great beauty so it's not like I look back at being 25 and I'm shuddering because that youthfulness has gone.

I learned a lot from Russell T. Davies, who is the most wonderful writer.

I desperately wanted to go to drama school and after that I've always been delighted to be offered employment - to view everything that comes my way as a chance to get better.

Male actors don't get asked about playing strong men; they're just men.

You have to talk about the things that make you sad and angry, that you feel could be changed, and you have to listen.

I don't think anyone's interested particularly in watching stuff that's just about two-dimensional characters anymore.

Well, I live in the U.K. in 2017 and I'm like every woman in this country who flips through supplements and magazines - I'm bombarded with pictures of so-called perfection.

I think what's fabulous about 'Living the Dream' is that accidents happen to them and they've got dramas and pitfalls to get through, but they do it as a united pair.

That's the thing about 'Three Girls' I found most upsetting. Young women feel their only options are to hook up with guys who've got vodka and cigarettes because they can't actually imagine a future that's any different. That's terrible.

We can't all have faces like Elizabeth Taylor or Angelina Jolie.

I think as a police officer when you're dealing with a member of the public you put something on because you have to appear to be this person who knows what they're talking about, and of course you're also trying to figure out the Rubik's cube of why people behave in the way that they do.

I got on a train to London when I was 18 and never moved back.

You might be able to mimic other styles but what's important is that you are true to who you are. You have to find your own voice.

I have a lot of friends who have nothing to do with the acting profession and they really liked seeing a woman of their age being represented on TV in what they felt to be a very realistic manner.

I met my birth mother as an adult, but she was always quite vague about my birth father. I knew he had been married to someone else, that he'd had children, but that was about it.

To some extent I'm always looking to see where I belong.

What I've done is I've started writing a novel, so that's my big adventure.

I'm an actress, not a politician. And my private life is my private life.

We're 50 per cent of the population so it's appropriate we're reflected everywhere as people who take part in society in a really proactive way - that women aren't just reactive, they're out there doing stuff.

It's very important to do things that you believe in - if you're bored by what you do, try something else.

I think everybody, at some point, rather feels that they have to shake themselves up somehow.

You have to know what you're doing, you have to be experienced. You can't just say, 'I'm an actress in 'Scott & Bailey,' I'm going to write an episode.'

I had a fantastic father, Jack Sharp, and I will always carry him in my heart as my father.

It's a very tricky situation to be in when you're actually friends with someone but they're also your boss.

I'm very controlling. It's my worst habit. I'm also over organized, which means I end up telling my family what I want them to do at certain times, like when to get up, where to put their clothes and when they should have their breakfast.