A biography for Sarah Lancashirehasn’t been written yet.
“Accents are interesting, because they very often inform the way a person moves.”
“My family on my mother's side is Irish.”
“I only did five or six weeks in 'Guys and Dolls,' and when I was 26 or so, I was in 'Blood Brothers' for a year on the West End, playing Linda, with Kiki Dee.”
“Am I attracted to people who want to give other people a voice? Yes I am, and that may be a 'common denominator with the characters that I play.”
“When you receive a script and it leaps out at you and it's breathing with its own heartbeat - I suppose when you read something like that it's not a choice of whether you do it or don't. It feels like it chooses you, so you just do it.”
“I do find it quite difficult to complete a job and return to normality - it does take a bit of time to find my healthy place.”
“'Happy Valley' is an extraordinary piece and it was not necessarily about Catherine but her part in the narrative.”
“I need to grow as an actor. The wonderful thing is you never stop learning, and as my only interest is trying to perfect what I do, it's wonderful because I'll never succeed, so I'll have to keep working.”
“I suppose trying not to fancy Richard Gere - that's been quite hard!”
“I have never known what it feels like to wake up in the morning full of the joys of spring, and wander through the day feeling capable of coping.”
“It started at 49 with 'Tango in Halifax' and then 'Happy Valley.' I can't complain at a time when most actors are disappearing. I seem to have become very visible.”
“Celebrity and actor are two completely different professions, and I don't believe that they mix if you want to maintain any sort of credibility.”
“I'm not planning on being a health role model.”
“I won't say I'll never go back to a soap because an actor's life is so precarious. You can have the most wonderful patch where everyone wants to work with you, and in the blink of an eye the phone won't ring for a month, even a year.”
“Marriage is not for everyone, but spiritually it is very necessary for me because I have a desire, a need to feel owned.”
“I never feel proud of anything I do really.”
“I can tell very early on, reading a script, within six or seven pages, whether I'm looking at real people, and whether I can see and hear real people.”
“During a performance of 'Blood Brothers' in 1990, I forgot to sing. I was so moved by what my co-star Kiki Dee was doing, that I completely missed my cue.”
“I'm not always right for the role. And to be honest I think part of your job as an actor is knowing when you're not right for the role.”
“I don't like comparing projects. I find it too difficult because I can't objectively look at a piece when I'm so subjectively involved it.”