Top 91 Quotes & Sayings by Nicola Walker
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Yes, I go a little bit crazy when I'm not working, which is an issue for me. My background is you go to work; that's what you do.
We lived in so many flats, and the more people you could get, the cheaper the flat was. Someone was always sleeping in the living room, and you're always slightly hiding them when the landlord came round.
When you're working, you're in the present, but you've always got one eye on where your next job might be coming from, and I don't think that will ever go away.
I was never told that the purpose of school was to get a job at the end of it. What was pushed on me was a love of learning, probably because my parents didn't have access to a great education.
Derek Jacobi is probably our finest actor.
I was on a tour of a Restoration comedy in 1996, and in Moscow we stayed at the Metropole hotel, off Red Square. The food there was opulent, but in the Maly theatre canteen, there were just a few pieces of rye bread, peanuts, and gherkins. I stood in the queue and burst into tears.
When I look back at the Nineties, I realise there wasn't very much TV I wanted to do.
There are a lot of women - directors, producers, writers - involved in my career. They are all interested in telling good stories, and good stories involve men and women.
'Spooks' was very much of its time and rather unique, so I was more than happy to be in that as a long-runner - because I think we won't have that sort of show again. I think it was really, really unusual.
'Spooks' was unique. It took up such a lot of your life - I think we did 10 episodes for the first few seasons. That's six months of your life.
My whole family were from the East End, but they moved away when I was a child. They still cannot get their heads around the fact that I ran back to London as soon as I could, when I was 21.
I just want to carry on doing high-quality work.
Two of my dramas, 'Unforgotten' and 'River,' were airing at the same time, and Dad had read about my 'success' in a newspaper - he thought it was brilliant. I was thinking, 'Does this mean I'm going to be put in a box for a bit now?'
My dad always jokes that if I ever write an autobiography, which I'm not going to, it'll be called 'It's Tough in the Middle.'
'Collateral' poses lots of questions and does it within the format of a really good, tense thriller. It starts at a real pace, and it doesn't let go.
Breakfast is a battle. I never feel like eating, but I have now found my way to porridge. I have it with full-fat milk and banana.
It's now become a joke in my family that as soon as I finish a job, I'm on a loop saying, 'I'm never going to work again' - it drives everyone mad!
I've only ever been on a long-runner with 'Spooks.'
We're all used to seeing a lot of cop shows, some of them brilliant, some of them very generic.
I get quite fearful about interviews, so I sought advice from other actors.
I found myself at Cambridge, loved my course, and met these amazing people who got me heavily involved. I presumed I would have to go to drama school, but I did a play with my uni friends, who were doing lots of pub theatre in London, and through that met my agent. She said 'Don't go to drama school. I'll get you a job' and two weeks later she did.
My two great fears are either not working or working on something that means you can't do something else you really want.
Once you've sat in a room annoying Derek Jacobi while he's trying to do his crossword, you're prepped for working with the greats.
I don't really have a treasured possession, but I do love my family's proper old photo album. We all have hundreds of photos on our phones now, but you can't beat the old albums stuffed with black-and-white wedding photographs and 1970s Polaroids.
I want to watch telly that reflects the world I see.
Cornwall is my favourite place - I wish I could earn a living there.
I can't tell you the excitement to be in a new TV series or a play you've got to read for. That's the best.
As I get older, I get happier.
I'd do anything with Tom Courtenay.
I completely respect the job our police do.
Roast potatoes - I can't say no. At Christmas, I reach over for the fifth or sixth one, and I think I could keep going until I explode.
When I bought my first little flat, it was two bedrooms, so I got Sarah Phelps to live with me. My years-later-to-be husband was slightly thinking, 'Why are you inviting your friends to live with you?' I was very resistant to leaving my friends.
'Unforgotten' was a bit of a no-brainer. I'm a big fan of crime dramas, but often the 'investigation' part goes much too smoothly - and you don't get that with this.
You can't escape your face.
I'd really like to play Lady Macbeth.
There aren't many shows that encompass roles for a seven-year-old to someone in their 50s.
I was always about working. I like working. I don't like being unemployed. I love acting.
Filming in London is brilliant.
When the acting all dries up, I won't be going there - either to the police force or to the church. I'll have to think of something else!
High-end divorce is a closed world. When I tried to research it, I was really surprised about how little there is out there. I think that's because of the nature of the subject matter - privacy is incredibly important to this level of client.
I love being the first person to play a part. I really get a big thrill out of it.
My husband is an actor, and we don't talk about acting at home.
The generation before me certainly told me that there would come a point when there were fewer parts, telling me to make hay while the sun shone. There was a time in my late thirties when I thought that it was something I had to get myself ready for, that things were going to slow down as I hit 40.
I'm married to a vegetarian, so if ever we go out to dinner, I go for kidneys.
It's totally different playing a lawyer and a detective.
I am very good at keeping secrets, except when I am drunk, when I will tell you absolutely anything.
You just have to look at me to know what I am feeling. So I would be a useless policewoman or spy.
If you could make telly as good as radio, it would be amazing - audio can do things so easily that television can't.
'The Split' is actually really hopeful - although it's left me reeling slightly, thinking about what we do to each other in the name of love, within the contract of marriage.
We bought a sofa with the money I made from 'Thunderbirds,' and I've still got it, and we call it Thunderbird 1. That's literally all I got out of the job.
I find the whole ceremony of marriage a bit like going to work. Putting on a lovely dress and make-up, learning lines, someone doing your hair.
In this industry, people like to look at different faces on their screens - even I do.
The confidence and charisma it takes to stand up in front of a group of children absolutely terrifies me.
I've got a feisty face.
There wasn't really anything I wanted to do other than acting, which is ridiculous because there were no actors in my family, and we didn't know anything about acting.
Don't worry about fitting in - it's completely over-rated.
At home, people very rarely recognise me.
It was really unusual that the crews on 'Spooks' were a real mix of men and women, and you'd struggle to see many women with parts that weren't cliched back in the late '90s.
I'd be an absolutely appalling detective... Appalling.
I would like to think that there are more women in positions of power, to actually get these projects off the ground that are more balanced, where the story is about men and women.
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