A biography for Adrian Lesterhasn’t been written yet.
“The great stories are always the old ones - they never change.”
“I'm not a fan of the 'Geordie Shore,' 'Towie'-type stuff. I'd rather watch something else, or read a book.”
“When you take on a character you try and lose yourself into it because you want to be less self-conscious.”
“Love is love, even in its platonic, unromantic sense. Once you have that connection between two people, the only thing that gets in the way is circumstance, history, what each person has gone through.”
“For me, learning stuff has always been a voyage of discovery and if it isn't, then I didn't see the point of it.”
“I've been in shows that have had bad reviews and they've gone on and sold out and own awards.”
“If you stop to think how nice everything is even for a moment, you're already going backwards again. You have to keep walking. I'm constantly worrying about what I'm going to do next.”
“Ultimately, I prefer being in front of the camera. I didn't train to be a director and my eye on it is purely a narrative exercise. I deal with the emotions of the characters involved because I'm an actor.”
“My ideas for the future have become about opportunity and hard work, rather than having doors slammed in my face, which is what I worried about when I was younger!”
“In our multicultural society, it is inevitable that there will be a prime minister of colour at some point.”
“What's been crucial to 'Hustle's' success is the sense that the gang could survive in prison or on the streets.”
“Never mind that British history is liberally dotted with ethnic minorities; to most scriptwriters they simply don't exist.”
“By the time I was 14, I started getting paid for my work as an actor. For walk on work as well, because I had an equity card. By then, my family accepted what I was going to do as a really sensible and viable option.”
“I think in any long relationship, you may have had four different relationships in that time but they all happen to be with the same person, and you've just changed.”
“There is always more work to do.”
“Playwrights are discovering you can bypass the shorthand of cinema and really explore a situation, ramp up the pressure, over several hours of telly.”
“I'm not the kind of actor who's going to fit well with a long-running series unless that series offers me the chance to be in new and different situations every week.”
“In the Heat of the Night' is an excellent piece of work.”
“A lot of writers will take a character at the beginning of a story. And that character will stay the same all the way through, but what happens to them becomes the interesting factor.”
“I'll always be awake at three in the morning, going over my lines.”