Lesley Sharp

When I was in my 20s, I think there was a lot of really arcane male behaviour that wasn't even questioned.

— Lesley Sharp

I really think it would be useful if society stopped vilifying older women.

— Lesley Sharp

My best feature is the color of my eyes, but I don't know where that comes from.

— Lesley Sharp

All the Enid Blyton books - they opened my eyes to a bunch of kids living a life that was so far…

— Lesley Sharp

I don't dislike anything, but I am definitely finding the ageing process 'interesting' and not wholly comfortable.

— Lesley Sharp

Going on stage is always a process that causes anxiety and nervousness.

— Lesley Sharp

I'd love to be beyond beautiful, for it to be acknowledged that my face was a wonder - like Monica Bellucci or…

— Lesley Sharp

I learned a lot from Russell T. Davies, who is the most wonderful writer.

— Lesley Sharp

Everyone has a certain hand dealt to them and you just have to work out whether you can keep going. The thing…

— Lesley Sharp

I desperately wanted to go to drama school and after that I've always been delighted to be offered employment - to view…

— Lesley Sharp

If you're adopted, you can't help but feel, somehow or other, deep, deep, deep down inside that you don't belong. It makes…

— Lesley Sharp

What was fantastic about 'Scott and Bailey' was the opportunity to engage with female characters that were absolutely committed to their working…

— Lesley Sharp

Well, I live in the U.K. in 2017 and I'm like every woman in this country who flips through supplements and magazines…

— Lesley Sharp

If you get involved with something on stage that makes you feel dreadful, that's a nightmare because you have to repeat it…

— Lesley Sharp

'Scott and Bailey' was very much forensically interested in the ins and outs of the way they went about cracking a case…

— Lesley Sharp

I think there are some people who have those childhoods that are really bad and so what happens is that they find…

— Lesley Sharp

Just because I'm older, I'm not ready to ease off. I'm interested, I want to do stuff.

— Lesley Sharp

You can choose to go about your life attracting attention or deflecting it.

— Lesley Sharp

With 'Before We Die,' the psychology of the characters and their relationships with one another was key.

— Lesley Sharp

The police genre is capable of holding and shaping many forms of storytelling.

— Lesley Sharp

You're immediately in a world of noir when you're watching shows like 'The Bridge' or 'The Killing.'

— Lesley Sharp

Sometimes I feel my glass is a bit half empty and I am a bit Eeyore-ish.

— Lesley Sharp

I think everybody, at some point, rather feels that they have to shake themselves up somehow.

— Lesley Sharp

What I've done is I've started writing a novel, so that's my big adventure.

— Lesley Sharp

It's very important to do things that you believe in - if you're bored by what you do, try something else.

— Lesley Sharp

I don't have the looks of angel, I don't have the body of a goddess, I'm kind of invisible.

— Lesley Sharp

Often the people who seem to be the ones who hold themselves together very well in the workplace are not as successful…

— Lesley Sharp

If you get hung up on the history of a part then you're on a hiding to nothing.

— Lesley Sharp

I don't think anyone's interested particularly in watching stuff that's just about two-dimensional characters anymore.

— Lesley Sharp

I don't think I've ever gone home and not been able to shake it off. I like having my own life too…

— Lesley Sharp

I feel pretty disillusioned about the politics and politicians in this country - and angry.

— Lesley Sharp

I want to stay open. I don't want to shut down the possibility of new ideas, new ways of seeing the world.

— Lesley Sharp

You get the best stuff when people are writing what they're really passionate about.

— Lesley Sharp

Because I think your twenties are really difficult, aren't they?

— Lesley Sharp

You have to talk about the things that make you sad and angry, that you feel could be changed, and you have…

— Lesley Sharp

The way you look, the way you sound, is always something that you have to circumnavigate.

— Lesley Sharp

Really complicated, interesting women at the centre of very, very well written dramas - and that's what floats my boat.

— Lesley Sharp

Now I belong to this fantastic group called The London Writers Salon, which runs Monday to Friday with sessions in London, New…

— Lesley Sharp

That's the thing about 'Three Girls' I found most upsetting. Young women feel their only options are to hook up with guys…

— Lesley Sharp

Being northern is fantastic but the positive associations I have - about being from a hard-working, funny and friendly community - aren't…

— Lesley Sharp