Dempsie Quotes

#1. I was a youngster looking up to dudes like Vicky McClure, Joe Dempsie and Michael Socha - in fact, he was a big influence on how I was able to detach drama from the all-singing, all-dancing stigma.

Jack O'Connell

#2. It's amazing what a bit of soot and shaving can do for muscle definition, honestly.

Joe Dempsie

#3. Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.

Slavoj Zizek

#4. Homosexuality is the handiwork of Satan,

Johnny Hart

#5. HBO spent a huge amount of money on 'Game Of Thrones,' and it won't be able to keep spending the money if it can't make it back from people watching it legitimately. It will have an effect on the quality of the programme.

Joe Dempsie

#6. If we succeed without sacrifice, it's because someone sacrificed for us.

Denis Waitley

#7. Audiences in every medium are becoming far more savvy. No one goes to watch a Tom Cruise movie any more just because it's starring Tom Cruise. No one gives a toss. Concept is what makes actors raise their game. Everyone's on merit now.

Joe Dempsie

#8. I admire actors that consistently challenge themselves and play a wide range of different roles. Every actor has a reason for being an actor ... it's boring to play the same person over and over again. People like Daniel Day Lewis, who completely transform time and time again, I look up to.

Joe Dempsie

#9. I enjoyed acting at school and went to an acting workshop for kids in Nottingham. It was twice a week after school and free to go to - ITV subsidised it. Every now and again, a casting director would turn up. 'Peak Practice' became a rite of passage for us. It was the first job I had.

Joe Dempsie

#10. America has always fascinated me; it's a country where you can make it from one side to the other with no money, by hook or by crook.

Joe Dempsie

#11. Concept is what makes actors raise their game.

Joe Dempsie

#12. If you try to pop the unpopped kernels in the microwave, you go back in time.

Gary Gulman

#13. 'Skins' had been a brilliant breeding ground for young actors, young directors and young writers. It was a safe environment to experiment; it tried new things, and it was an amazing time and amazing to be part of it.

Joe Dempsie

#14. I still don't get stopped about anything else anywhere near as much as 'Skins.' The remarkable thing that I've noticed is how far that show has traveled: it's aired all over the world.

Joe Dempsie

#15. When I was cast as Gendry, I didn't have any of the physical attributes the part required. I was astounded that I got the role, to be honest.

Joe Dempsie

#16. I could jump, I was quick, I could catch and all those types of things, but when it came to just flat out speed, that's something I had to work really hard at.

Troy Brown

#17. There are dedicated actors and there are people now who only stay famous for putting on weight, losing it, then putting it on again.

Joe Dempsie

#18. Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good.

Joe Dempsie

#19. Living to an extraordinary age, she mourned them all equally as she buried her husband and, one by one, her children. In this suffering she found the best sort of perfection
the kind that never demands it of others.

Martine Leavitt

#20. I'm a big fan of unflinching drama and bold drama. If you shy away from dark subject matters, there's only certain places for TV drama to go. If there are shows that can break through that and be brave, those are the shows that I personally enjoy watching. I try and do work that I would watch.

Joe Dempsie

#21. Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.

Ian McKellen

#22. Depends on the evening. A good red wine is nice in cold weather. A Claret or a Rioja. I've got a good gin we make from damson plums. And you can't beat a glass of champagne every now and again.

Alan Titchmarsh

#23. I'm the kind of person who, if I can't get something right, I get quite frustrated with myself.

Joe Dempsie

#24. I've always been a sucker for a dog called an Alaskan Malamute. It's like a little husky ... my dad had one when he was younger.

Joe Dempsie

#25. I just wanted what was outside to be different.

Joe Dempsie

#26. Street-casting - people like Katie Jarvis in 'Fish Tank,' spotted having a row with her boyfriend on a railway platform - has helped make actors raise their game. They have to.

Joe Dempsie

#27. I suppose you've got to look like you're made of steel for nudity. You've got to get some arms on you.

Joe Dempsie

#28. 'Southcliffe' is an anthem to ordinary people's ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.

Joe Dempsie

#29. Rowan stood with his queen in the rain, breathing in her scent, and let her steal his warmth for as long as she needed.

Sarah J. Maas

#30. Casting young people is always so difficult, and they got it so right in 'Game of Thrones.' All the young actors are amazingly talented and so professional.

Joe Dempsie

#31. I'm Cancer and Gemini cusp, so I read both and pick the one I like best. I read horoscopes but claim not to believe any of it.

Joe Dempsie

#32. We can best understand the furies of war and politics by remembering that almost the whole of each party believes absolutely in its picture of the opposition, that it takes as fact, not what is, but what it supposes to be the fact.

Walter Lippmann

#33. It's bizarre, that feeling as an actor, at being in the mecca of the film world and seeing billboards for a TV show that you're in pretty much everywhere.

Joe Dempsie