102 Quotes by Sarah Lancashire

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.

If someone was walking round in a T-shirt with Sarah Lancashire on it, I'd find that very disturbing.

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.

I'm driven by fear.

Now that I'm in my late 40s, I'm trying to make up for a little bit of lost musicals time.

I'm not terribly good at being around work I don't care about!

I'm Lancashire by name, and Lancashire was where I grew up - in Oldham.

You start out with scripts pre-written, with no specific actor in mind, so you've got to build a character on top of that foundation. It's not just lifting words off the page, it's constructing a history around them as well.

My father's family, I think, were mostly from Lancashire, but I don't know how far back we go. I think it's quite a few generations.