David Morrissey quotes:

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

My son got me into 'The Mighty Boosh.' I just love that surrealist humour.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Liverpool will always be my home.

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.

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.

'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 like to act because I can forget about everything else.

I'm not a perfectionist at all. I find perfectionists boring because the real creative heart is in the mess somewhere.

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.

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.

All actors think every job will be their last.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

It's always good to find out what you don't want to do.

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