Sarah Lancashire Quotes

'Mad Men' has been my big break. I'm beyond thrilled.

I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the top of your game; you have so much to give but do not have the platform to do this.

I'm one of those fortunate actors who gets to work pretty much every day. I've had a run of good fortune and work with some terrific people who have hired me.

I think all actors experience ups and downs.

An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing.

I'm an actress who likes to work as much as possible, so I'm very grateful for all these opportunities.

I've been blessed to get the kind of films I have done.

Though sometimes you hit, sometimes you don't get the kind of roles you should get, but sometimes you get the role.

To get asked to do stuff like 'United States Of Tara' and 'Caprica' is terrific. I can't complain.

What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpse's friend's brother who was having problems with his marriage.

I think you have to be really lucky to pick the sort of roles you want to do.

I feel like I've finally made it as an actor. I've been doing this for years and you don't always make a movie that everybody likes.

There are some roles you just don't say 'no' to. Those compass points: you get them so rarely as an actress.

If you have the opportunity as an actor to control your career in any way, then you've won the jackpot.

Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.

I'd love to be on a TV series someday, but I believe you get the jobs that you're meant to get. If the job that I'm meant to get is another musical or another play or film or TV show, I'm just happy to keep working.

As an actor, of course, you want to be in something that's successful.

If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.

I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in their professional and chronological lives.

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

As long as I keep getting cast, I don't care if it's typecast.

I had been asked to start going out for roles here and there throughout my career, but I know that acting is a hard thing; it takes a lot of work, and I was traveling. I didn't have the time to really focus on it, so I really waited for the right project to come along.

I'm very much looking forward to my 30-40 years of acting, and, as I get older, I'm really looking forward to some of the roles that are out there to play.

I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.

I've been lucky - I've been an actor for eight years and I've never been out of work.