Top 30 Shaun Evans Quotes

I’m a big reader. And I take a lot of pictures, do a lot of writing.

I just don’t really like starting a job if I don’t know where it finishes. I want to know where something begins and ends so that you can invest something in it.

I think it is OK to surprise people.

When I was in my late teens, I discovered ‘Fawlty Towers’ and ‘Monty Python,’ and they still make me laugh.

I don’t do any social media. I’m not on Facebook or Twitter. I’m just not interested.

I think it’s a falsehood to think you can have some kind of plan. Acting isn’t like that, it’s more vocational, I think.

I’ve been dumped plenty of times, I can assure you of that.

Ultimately, my boss is the audience.

I think it’s important to live your life the way you want to live it. Don’t live your life in fear.

If you put too much pressure on the idea of people watching you, it stops you being able to watch people.

I’m delighted to be working on ‘Casualty.’ It’s a terrific cast and crew, and I’m very grateful for the opportunity.

I don’t understand ‘The Only Way Is Essex’ and ‘Made in Chelsea’: the way they pretend there’s no camera. I cannot fathom the attraction.

While I try and give as much energy, enthusiasm and detail to any work I do, if I keep coming back to it, to the same people year after year, there’s an attachment. But you don’t want anything to become comfortable.

Everyone brings their top game to Endeavour. We’re very lucky. I’m glad people love it because that’s our intention.

It helps to be more interested in other people than you are in yourself. Inhabiting other characters is what I do.

I used to have an aunty who read tea leaves. She was incredibly accurate.

I want people of my generation who’ve never seen ‘Endeavour’ before to enjoy this series.

I’m just lucky to be working; I’m not trying to leave a legacy.

If you love people, tell them you love them.

I guess I’ve always been something of an outsider.

You can make films, and often, they get released on four screens in the U.K. Although it’s been interesting and good for you, if no one’s seen it, what’s the point?

Everything has to keep moving forward in ‘Endeavour.’ Otherwise, it will stagnate.

Don’t be losing sleep over tiny things. Life is complicated enough.

My brother and I loved ‘ThunderCats’ and Robin Williams coming out of an egg in ‘Mork & Mindy.’ At the time, I thought it was funny, but looking back, it was a crazy concept!

If I can be dead honest with you, when I first see the script for a new episode of ‘Endeavour,’ if anything jars, I say, ‘What’s this? Has it got a place in our story?’ And if it hasn’t, it has to go.

I think the trick is to leave before everyone is sick of you!

With all due respect, I have a job to do, and that is to try and make ‘Endeavour’ the best it can be.

There is no point in being lazy.

I don’t think you can work properly if you have anxiety about something; it stops you doing the work you’re paid to do.

Loner heroes do appeal to that part of yourself that feels as though your genius hasn’t been recognised.