Sarah Lancashire Quotes

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

Acting meant so much to me.

Any day acting is an amazing day.

From my point of view, there is a lot of joy in stage work.

Theatre is where my passion lies - I just love it. I love watching it, and I love doing it.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling.

In the theatre, as anyone knows who's even done amateur theatre all their lives, you immediately find a family there. Because you're under stress, you're trying to create something, you're putting on a show, you find brothers and sisters right away.

If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay.

Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.

Where every moment is about truth and I think it's a great challenge every night. That's what really drove me to wanting to do theatre, and it's great.

My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

I started out in theatre, and there's no better feeling than the adrenaline of being on stage.

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.

I have such a passion for theatre.

When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.

A play is a passion.

I know from teaching that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.

Well, I'm never happier than when I'm acting.

I got a chance to act, and I have to say that acting is extremely fun and vital.

It was when I was on stage that I realized that acting could be such a brilliant job.

I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.

The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work.