David Morrissey Quotes

"You never have any control over what people write or what they think, but there is a sense of me as a working-class lad done very well. I don`t know where that comes from . . . It`s partly to do with "One Summer" (1983), the first thing I ever did, which is a very gritty piece of work; it was quite romantic, but it was about two poverty-stricken inner-city kids. People get confused, and think that was my background as well. In people`s minds, there`s no such thing as a middle-class scouser. Liverpool does tend to carry that sort of stamp of tough city kids, no arse in your trousers . . . it`s so not that. We`re the European city of culture, for God`s sake!"

"You know, you just go (to Hollywood) to do your job, and then you find yourself in this however many million-dollar movie, and that`s a big machine, but you`re still there to do the same job. I`ll know more about it once the publicity machine kicks in, because I`ve never been through all that madness. Which I`m looking forward to, but I`m also apprehensive. I watch chat-shows here, and you see British actors flogging their films, and doing it very well, and I`m just thinking I hope I don`t say `fuck` in the middle of Letterman."

"There`s no quicker way to sound like a wanker than being an actor talking about his work, but I think it is a job. You do go to work to do it. It`s not like you`re so marvelously gifted it just spills out of you."

"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."