Words matter. These are the best David Morrissey Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We have one life and we should cherish it and make it the best we can.
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.
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.
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.
Liverpool will always be my home.
When I came to London as a young man, I was very excited by it and that’s never gone away.
I’ve moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.
I’d really like to get on a Greyhound bus and go backpacking across America.
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.
All actors think every job will be their last.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
‘Evil’ is quite a blanket term. People aren’t the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.
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.
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.
The thing as an actor is you get a sense of what a show is like the minute you walk on the set.
I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There’s nothing resting about acting.
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.
I couldn’t think of anything worse than going to a fancy dress party. So, if somebody invited me to one, I’d go as the Invisible Man and not turn up.
I’m not a perfectionist at all. I find perfectionists boring because the real creative heart is in the mess somewhere.
I’m no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.
