David Morrissey Quotes

#1. I'd really like to get on a Greyhound bus and go backpacking across America.

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#2. The thing as an actor is you get a sense of what a show is like the minute you walk on the set.

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#3. My son got me into 'The Mighty Boosh.' I just love that surrealist humour.

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#4. I'm not a perfectionist at all. I find perfectionists boring because the real creative heart is in the mess somewhere.

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#5. Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.

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#6. It's always good to find out what you don't want to do.

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#7. Liverpool will always be my home.

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#8. I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

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#9. I owe my mum a sense of family. She has kept our family together. I have two brothers and a sister, and they all live a stone's throw away from each other in Liverpool.

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#10. I'm a massive fan of Brit Art in general and Damien Hirst in particular. I think he's an absolute genius and should be celebrated in every way.

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#11. As a director, your work is finished only when it's on the screen. But I will always be an actor who occasionally directs. And no, I have no interest in directing myself. I wouldn't be able to concentrate on both jobs at once.

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#12. I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

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#13. I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

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#14. We have one life and we should cherish it and make it the best we can.

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#15. It takes a long time to drag myself out of bed, and at night I'm buzzing. As a young man it was helpful, but now I'd like to be tired when I go to bed and alive in the morning.

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#16. When I discovered acting, I decided that's what I wanted to do above everything else. It was the first time I was passionate about anything.

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#17. I'm the youngest of four kids. There's something in me that will always be the youngest child, will always look up to people when they don't necessarily need it.

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#18. You look at any war zone and you talk to any soldiers and they have to blank out - in order for that to work for them, in order for them to survive they have to blank out something in themselves in order to do it.

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#19. All my good friends are actors, really. It's different when you have a family, but they're still the people I meet most often. My best friend is Ian Hart, but then I've known him since I was five.

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#20. I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.

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#21. 'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

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#22. The biggest difference between British TV and American TV is money. But what money doesn't do on American TV, which I thought it would, is buy you time. You don't get more time. You get more toys.

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#23. My house is very clean apart from a very small part of it that looks as if we've been burgled, which is my office.

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#24. The great thing about coming from where I come from - Liverpool and my family - is that we're very close. I have a great relationship with my siblings and their kids.

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#25. You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.

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#26. I think the corruption of power is very interesting, and I think the idea that power is something that ... You know, when people want power, they're a certain individual. When people acquire power by accident, they're different again.

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#27. Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

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#28. I've got a great family and a beautiful house. I feel very lucky as far as my lifestyle is concerned. I'm not really interested in fame and all its trappings.

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#29. When I came to London as a young man, I was very excited by it and that's never gone away.

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#30. Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.

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#31. When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

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#32. I love getting stuff, and if I give a present to someone and don't get one back, you can bet your life they won't be getting one next year.

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#33. I like to act because I can forget about everything else.

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#34. I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

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#35. I think I'm quite a lazy person, actually. If I'm not careful, I could just stay in bed all day.

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#36. In all honesty, we all want our fantasy selves to be the best people. We all think in a time of crisis, we will react heroically and with humanity.

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#37. I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.

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#38. All actors think every job will be their last.

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