When I came to London as a young man, I was very excited by it and that's never gone away.

- David Morrissey

All actors think every job will be their last.

- David Morrissey

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

- David Morrissey

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

- David Morrissey

I'm a massive fan of Brit Art in general and Damien Hirst in particular. I think he's an absolute genius and should be celebrated in every way.

- David Morrissey

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

- David Morrissey

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

- David Morrissey

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.

- David Morrissey

My house is very clean apart from a very small part of it that looks as if we've been burgled, which is my office.

- David Morrissey

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

- David Morrissey

The thing as an actor is you get a sense of what a show is like the minute you walk on the set.

- David Morrissey

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

- 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.

- David Morrissey

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.

- David Morrissey

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.

- David Morrissey

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.

- David Morrissey

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.

- David Morrissey

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.

- David Morrissey

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.

- David Morrissey

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.

- David Morrissey