102 Quotes by Sarah Lancashire

Being an actor can be a cruel experience because there is no cooling-down period. You can be involved in something that's incredibly intense, but then it's a wrap and you've finished and you go home. I find it difficult to complete a job and then return to reality and find my healthy place.

Accents are interesting, because they very often inform the way a person moves.

'Tango' is very much an ensemble piece and I was devastated when I read the script.

For me, it was much more important to continue to learn my craft as an actor and get a bit of flesh on the bones.

I am a tea connoisseur and my idea of absolute heaven is a tea shop.

I think this country is terribly, horribly obsessed with age, and it really is just this country. If you're still living and breathing at 50, then count your blessings!

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.

It's a joy doing 'Tango.' I'd do it till the day I die, frankly.

But I am Northern myself, and there is a certain rhythm of Northern speech that is very comical: that combination of the choice of language and the speech rhythm, which in itself is very funny.