A biography for Sarah Lancashirehasn’t been written yet.
“I'm not very good at watching myself. I look at it and I think, 'Oh, they've used the wrong take.' My job is over and it's not healthy to sit there and scrutinize your work as you're invariably unhappy!”
“I'm driven by fear.”
“Two of the best roles I've ever had have happened in my late 40s.”
“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.”
“Anyone who has to be accountable in a time when resources are shrinking, where transparency is necessary, where the pressures are greater, is going to find that it takes a toll.”
“The roles do get fewer as you get older. That's the same for all professions, there's fewer roles for people later in life. I don't think it should be like that because as long as you are able to do your job then people should keep working with you. It shouldn't come down to age.”
“To be asked to perform a new 'Talking Head' was beyond any expectation. The matchless brilliance of Alan Bennett's words coupled with the extraordinary wisdom of Nick Hytner's direction made this a thrilling and quite simply unforgettable experience, and I'm enormously grateful.”
“Love is very complicated and it's never black and white, as I'm sure we all know in our lives.”
“I think Jack Thorne is an exceptional writer.”
“Actors are bloody marvelous at hiding.”
“When you pretend for a living and you have to pretend in your private life as well, it's very sad. Because it's intangible, depression is an issue that people don't like to talk about. It's like a huge, guilty secret.”
“I never get offered comedy.”
“'Tango' is very much an ensemble piece and I was devastated when I read the script.”
“The work I like to do is the work I'm most afraid of.”
“I think women have not been terribly kind to other women for a very long time.”
“I am possibly the biggest 'Downton' fan you can ever meet.”
“If someone was walking round in a T-shirt with Sarah Lancashire on it, I'd find that very disturbing.”
“I'm straight, but it's immaterial what your sexuality is. Isn't it really just about being a fulfilled human being?”
“I think all writers have a style, a particular voice and rhythm that you have to find.”
“You have to have brilliant people to work opposite, and then it does become like a real tennis match and this is our sport. With somebody like Mark Lewis Jones, who is extraordinary anyway, you just know it's going to be a good match.”