Dan Stevens

Dan Stevens
Daniel Jonathan "Dan" Stevens is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Matthew Crawley in the British period drama television series Downton Abbey...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth10 October 1982
CityCroydon, England
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Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel on New York's 49th Street, peal the tune of 'There's No Business Like Show Business.' If you walk the streets of the theatre district before a show and see the vast, enthusiastic lines it sounds like a calling: there is certainly no place like Broadway.
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Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.
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I'm lucky to be married to someone who entirely gets what I do. She is totally sympathetic to the actor's life. Her own mother was an actress, so she sort of grew up with it.
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No matter what happens, there are humans involved. We make mistakes. We try to go through enough checks and balances.
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The Broadway audiences are very vocal and seem very engaged. For certain shows, especially with a show like 'The Heiress,' the audience's reactions sound like 'The Jerry Springer Show' sometimes. That seems to be a very New York thing. Oh, there's also the entrance round of applause here, which we don't get too much in London.
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It's head and heart. I like to feed both. I always wanted to be an actor. But the cultural-intellectual side of things has always excited me. I wouldn't want to let it go.
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My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.
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Is it too early? I don't think so. The citizens of the United States have forgotten what happened. It's definitely a moment I'll never forget.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person. Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations. I was a pretty difficult teenager.
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As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.
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We lost a lot of high tech jobs recently. They've been replaced with service sector (lower pay) jobs.
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We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want - but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit.
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We were up 26-19, and it looked like things were clicking. But for a few minutes, we went in our little shell and gave them some easy baskets.