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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I go dog-walking a lot.
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I know it sounds funny, but every time I have a disaster in the kitchen, it knocks my confidence level a little bit more, and I feel annoyed with myself that I can't do better.
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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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One of the Sunday newspapers asked me to make my favorite dish, and they photographed me holding it in the kitchen. It was roasted salmon with roasted vegetables. That's not cooking; that's putting things in a pan. It looked quite nice, but I'm not saying it was good.
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I've not cooked Christmas dinner since 1982.
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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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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 want to have a scene with Maggie Smith.
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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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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 think I should be a nightclub singer. I love to sing!
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I mean, I've done musicals, but it's not my best thing.
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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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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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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'm not very good with conventional, prim-and-proper people who are well-behaved, grown-up.
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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 met Bette Midler, who I absolutely love.
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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.
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I don't do freeways.