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
years giving next-year
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.
war order soldier
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.
america backpacking greyhounds
I'd really like to get on a Greyhound bus and go backpacking across America.
honesty thinking self
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.
thinking lazy bed
I think I’m quite a lazy person, actually. If I’m not careful, I could just stay in bed all day.
brothers family kept mum owe throw
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.
biggest british buy money time tv
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.
love
My son got me into 'The Mighty Boosh.' I just love that surrealist humour.
people
I'm the youngest of four kids. There's something in me that will always be the youngest child, will always look up to people when they don't necessarily need it.
coming family great liverpool relationship
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.
demonic people quite
'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.
gone
When I came to London as a young man, I was very excited by it and that's never gone away.
above decided discovered passionate time
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.
anxious knew profession
When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, it was like saying I wanted to be an astronaut. Not because it was highfalutin' in any way - just because they didn't know anybody in that field. They were anxious of a profession they knew nothing about.