Quotes from David Morrissey

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.

Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.

I'd really like to get on a Greyhound bus and go backpacking across America.

I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.

I think I'm quite a lazy person, actually. If I'm not careful, I could just stay in bed all day.

I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.

When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, it was like saying I wanted to be an astronaut. Not because it was highfalutin' in any way - just because they didn't know anybody in that field. They were anxious of a profession they knew nothing about.

I've got a great family and a beautiful house. I feel very lucky as far as my lifestyle is concerned. I'm not really interested in fame and all its trappings.

We have one life and we should cherish it and make it the best we can.

The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a whole team of people who have been working on it for months before you start. You have this really intense period of filming and then you leave it, knowing that the director will work on it for another few months.

'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

The great thing about being an actor is things happen to you very quickly. I like to put myself in the way of surprise.

I owe my mum a sense of family. She has kept our family together. I have two brothers and a sister, and they all live a stone's throw away from each other in Liverpool.

I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.

When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

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.

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.

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.

The great thing about coming from where I come from - Liverpool and my family - is that we're very close. I have a great relationship with my siblings and their kids.