Quotes from Brett Goldstein

In America, I think most actors wish they were rock stars, but I think in England most people wish they were footballers.

I grew up with a lot of footballers.

I have genuine empathy for the fact that if you're a professional footballer, you've often started at three years old, you've been found, you've been scouted, you play, you play, you play, you make millions, you live this incredible life. And then you reach 35, and suddenly you have to stop doing it, and you haven't been taught anything else.

Film is a real good way to get deep with someone.

I would rate my TV football skills as an amazing achievement by the editors.

If I'm watching a heavy drama and there's no moment of people laughing, I always think that's not realistic.

I've seen stuff that says be nice and I think: you're not showing me anything. You're telling me, like a Hallmark card: be nice, nice to be nice, innit?

I wouldn't recommend wearing tight Spandex for hours. It don't half chafe.

I'm a workaholic, is basically what we've discovered.

One day, I would love to make a horror film.

With stand-up I could think of something now and say it onstage tonight. It's totally pure, I love it.

When they asked me, 'Do you want to work on Ricky Gervais' new series?' did I say, 'Hang on, I'll have a think about that. I'm very busy at the moment. I've got to do a gig above a pub for 10 quid tonight?' Of course I didn't! I said, 'Yes, please! It's the new Ricky Gervais show, for God's sake!'

I like that 'Scrubs' is very funny and silly and broad, but also emotional and real - sometimes within the same scene.

I've seen too many things where the end is, 'Well, you should've stuck to traditional values.' I think it was interesting to try to do something different with it.

No one wants to stop paying football - it's just that your body can't. That's tragic.

I won't name them, but we have family friends who are professional footballers, so I grew up around these types. I was around when they retired, and I know how difficult that transition is.

I wanted to be a stuntman first, and I used to pretend to be Indiana Jones and jump off roofs and slide under garage doors. I was 29 at the time.

The film that I go on about and drive people mad is 'Don't Look Now' with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland. It's the best married couple acting you have ever seen in any film, the way they are together.

I was a writer. I wrote on the show. We were in the writer's room and by about episode five, I started to think: 'I really understand Roy Kent. I really understand Roy Kent. I think Roy Kent is within me.'

I usually play a softer character.

Your soul mate is the person you're going to love the most, but it doesn't mean you're suddenly going to be a different person.

So in 'Ted Lasso,' which is an American show but set in the UK and most of the cast are British, I think that's what's interesting and what was a risk and what worked: there are two sensibilities.

That's my ultimate goal, is work with the Muppets.

Will Bridges, who is the co-creator with me, when we were working on 'SuperBob,' we were just talking about how we like to write about relationships. And we were talking about what love is. We were in very different stages; he was married and was about to have his first child, and I was kind of dating the wrong people.