David Morrissey famous quotes

06-24-2025

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

#Honesty #Thinking #Self
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.
-- David Morrissey

#Years #Giving #Next Year
I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.
-- David Morrissey

#Challenges #Acting #Stories
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.
-- David Morrissey

#Thinking #Surprise #Goodness
I'd really like to get on a Greyhound bus and go backpacking across America.
-- David Morrissey

#America #Backpacking #Greyhounds
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

#Art #Thinking #Fans
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

#Panic #Starting #Projects
I'm not a perfectionist at all. I find perfectionists boring because the real creative heart is in the mess somewhere.
-- David Morrissey

#Real #Heart #Creative
It's always good to find out what you don't want to do.
-- David Morrissey

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

#Wise #Cities #Choices
Liverpool will always be my home.
-- David Morrissey

#Home
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

#Office #House #Looks
When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.
-- David Morrissey

#Disappointment #Rejection #Hazards
I like to act because I can forget about everything else.
-- David Morrissey

#Forget #Because I Can
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

#Office #Library #Desks
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

#People #Want #Theater
I think Iâ€™m quite a lazy person, actually. If Iâ€™m not careful, I could just stay in bed all day.
-- David Morrissey

#Thinking #Lazy #Bed
I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.
-- David Morrissey

#Acting #Casting #Taught
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.
-- David Morrissey

#Planning #Chill #Daydreaming
Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.
-- David Morrissey

#Character #Evil #People
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.
-- David Morrissey

#Party #Men #Thinking
Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.
-- David Morrissey

#Squares #House #Savannah
We have one life and we should cherish it and make it the best we can.
-- David Morrissey

#Cherish #Should
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.
-- David Morrissey

#Ambition #Journey #Discovery
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

#Good Friend #People #My Best Friend
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.
-- David Morrissey

#Beautiful #House #Lucky
All actors think every job will be their last.
-- David Morrissey

#Jobs #Thinking #Actors
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, theyre a certain individual. When people acquire power by accident, theyre different again.
-- David Morrissey

#Thinking #Ideas #People

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