Lesley Nicol Quotes
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People are always asking me for my favorite recipe, and I have to say, 'I don't really have one.'
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'Sweeney Todd' is my favorite Sondheim musical.
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Visiting a show that's already established can be a bit daunting, as they've been a family already, and you're the newbie.
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I don't have any rules when it comes to clothes. I'll wear anything if it fits and looks good.
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I go dog-walking a lot.
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The first meal my husband ever made me was a chicken curry. I have never tasted anything so delicious in my life.
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I've not cooked Christmas dinner since 1982.
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Coming eyeball to eyeball with a hummingbird on my terrace is as exciting to me as any celebrity I've met as a result of 'Downton Abbey.'
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I guess that is my favorite thing - to make people laugh and also to maybe engage them emotionally and touch them somehow in telling the story.
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Since I've turned 50, I've had the best roles of my life, and I've got married. Everyone said that wasn't possible because there are no men, but I've done it. I think it's just going to get better.
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I think I should be a nightclub singer. I love to sing!
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I inherited my weight problem from my mum. She was always on diets. If there was a box of chocolates in the house, she'd eat half a chocolate, then put the other half back. She loved me, but she did encourage me to diet in my teens.
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I mean, I've done musicals, but it's not my best thing.
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I never imagined I'd go into acting, but I always loved drama, and when I was 16, I discovered the Library Theatre up the road. So I plucked up courage and asked if I could watch rehearsals. It was like Heaven.
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People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.
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People I've never spoken to before come up to me and give me a hug.
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As an actor, you never know where the work's going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.
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I have been invited to do something called 'Celebrity MasterChef' in England, which, of course, I can't do. It's complete nonsense. You have to be a decent cook to begin with. I'd be the joke one.
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I'm not very good with conventional, prim-and-proper people who are well-behaved, grown-up.
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For many years, I picked the wrong men, or they picked me. I think if you don't feel attractive or worth something as a woman, you attract men who don't really look after you. That's what happened to me, but I realise that those relationships were like a journey, helping me to learn something about myself.