When you pretend for a living and you have to pretend in your private life as well, it's very sad. Because it's… — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
The roles do get fewer as you get older. That's the same for all professions, there's fewer roles for people later in… — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
Children are part of the natural pattern of life. For centuries people have been having children and going to work. You get… — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
I don't feel that 40 is anything these days. Our life expectancy is so much greater that maybe 50 is the new 40. — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
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… — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
I took 18 months away to have my son, Joseph, and it was the biggest break I'd ever had in my working… — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
You don't always realize the impact you have on people's lives. You just think 'I'm an actor, I don't think I'm doing… — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
Now that I'm in my late 40s, I'm trying to make up for a little bit of lost musicals time. — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
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… — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's necessary for soaps to hang on to an audience by sensationalizing, but it's a beast I don't understand any more, an art… — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
Acting is a subtle combination of hiding and revealing yourself, and as I'm not an extrovert, this is painful for me. — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
If someone was walking round in a T-shirt with Sarah Lancashire on it, I'd find that very disturbing. — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
'Tango' is very much an ensemble piece and I was devastated when I read the script. — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
I come from a line of women who can bake, so I think I've inherited a bit of family knowledge. — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
I own a copy of the original 'Talking Heads' by Alan Bennett, which I purchased many years ago shortly after they were first broadcast.… — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
The writing is only ever the attractive thing about a part. And also if all the elements within the writing come together - the… — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
Age affects us all in the workplace. We all get a little less appealing as we get older, unfortunately. — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image