Quotes from Tom Payne

I went on Skins' when I was 23, and everyone else was about 17. It was like being back at school.

Well, conventions are so cool, because I just feel like I'm giving out smiles all day, it's so fun, and you get people who are hysterically crying.

Being in a long-running series is great because it gives you so many opportunities - but at the same time it's a bit desk jobby: you go to the same place every day, you do the same thing and you play the same character.

I have a new appreciation for how fit martial artists are. There is so much energy being exerted when you fight.

All great leaders choose great advisors, people they really trust for their governance.

It just makes me so happy that I can give someone a smile by just saying hello. That's pretty cool.

If you want to survive the zombie apocalypse, you need to focus on increasing your stamina.

Honestly, a lot of the time, I'm like, 'Oh, my god, I've got so many lines to learn,' that I have to focus and get in into a bit of a zone, but there are always moments to have some fun.

I was on the tube the other day and it was after the Chelsea match and everyone was going crazy screaming across at each other. I just can't imagine ever getting that excited about it!

'Prodigal Son' actually came along a lot quicker than I was expecting my next job to come. I was prepared to take a while off, but then it was such a good opportunity that I couldn't turn it down.

I've led movies before, but not a TV show, and it's a different beast. You have to pace yourself more.

I was in this motorcade, and I was like, I'm with Michael Mann and Nick Nolte and I'm in a TV show. Oh, my God!'

It's possible to shoot two TV shows. It's absolutely possible, it's not something I would choose to do. It does sound completely miserable.

I'm 26, and I'm finally getting to play characters in their early twenties.

There's years of growth and emotions in that hair. And it gets cut off and you're like, 'I'm really metamorphosing into something else. I'm emerging.'

I have a gym membership, but that's always been more about muscle building for roles.

There are things that happen, at different times in your life. You go through natural changes in life, when you reach your 30s, mid-30s and 40s, and you go through these different stages.

There's no difference between a gay person and a heterosexual person at the end of the day.

Had I stayed in England, I would have had to take at least a few acting jobs just for the money.

'Downton Abbey' is my worst nightmare. I just hate that whole 'Upstairs Downstairs' thing, I think it's really lazy and it doesn't represent England, it's this postcard view.

When I was on 'The Walking Dead,' I was working with some great actors, but I wasn't working very much. It wasn't stretching me very much.

The thought of losing rekindles the joy of having.

When we appear to be "more a loser than a victor" on the Path it is easy to lose sight of the fact that we are growing spiritually.

The problem suggests the solution.