“I was always about working. I like working. I don't like being unemplo...” — Nicola Walker Quote

I was always about working. I like working. I don't like being unemployed. I love acting.

At home, people very rarely recognise me.

I was never told that the purpose of school was to get a job at the end of it. What was pushed on me was a love of learning, probably because my parents didn't have access to a great education.

It always makes me laugh to think that I get to sit around and chat with people like Anne Reid and Derek Jacobi and get paid for it.

There's a really sweet spot with acting where you've finished a job, and you've got another one coming up in three or four months' time. That's my favourite period of unemployment.

In every community there are poor and unemployed people.

The normal state of an actor is unemployed.

I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.

I definitely have had my down times and also have had my times of being very, very unemployed.

Another reason I did not make films is that I liked being unemployed, since that is when I read, study and write.