David Morrissey
David Morrissey
David Mark Morrisseyis an English actor, director, producer and screenwriter. At the age of 18, he was cast in the television series One Summer. After making One Summer, Morrissey attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, then acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre for four years...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth21 June 1964
CityLiverpool, England
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I like to act because I can forget about everything else.
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I love getting stuff, and if I give a present to someone and don't get one back, you can bet your life they won't be getting one next year.
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You look at any war zone and you talk to any soldiers and they have to blank out - in order for that to work for them, in order for them to survive they have to blank out something in themselves in order to do it.
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I'd really like to get on a Greyhound bus and go backpacking across America.
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In all honesty, we all want our fantasy selves to be the best people. We all think in a time of crisis, we will react heroically and with humanity.
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I think I’m quite a lazy person, actually. If I’m not careful, I could just stay in bed all day.
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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.
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When I came to London as a young man, I was very excited by it and that's never gone away.
The thing as an actor is you get a sense of what a show is like the minute you walk on the set.
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As a director, your work is finished only when it's on the screen. But I will always be an actor who occasionally directs. And no, I have no interest in directing myself. I wouldn't be able to concentrate on both jobs at once.
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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.
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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.
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It takes a long time to drag myself out of bed, and at night I'm buzzing. As a young man it was helpful, but now I'd like to be tired when I go to bed and alive in the morning.
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The great thing about being an actor is things happen to you very quickly. I like to put myself in the way of surprise.