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David Morrissey Quotes

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

David Morrissey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: english
Birth: June 21, 1964

Topics

Me Acting Never Take Well Directing

I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.

Joaquin Phoenix

Funny Humor Experience Think Way

Sexism is part of every industry and must be addressed. But I try not to focus on the negative but the positive side of what we can bring.

Positive Focus Negative Try Side

Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.

John Shelton Reed

Music History Food Past Identity

Normally, when I write a tour show, it's got a title that means something - a beginning, a middle and an end - and some kind of storyline and ideas going through it over two hours.

Beginning Ideas End Kind Write Over

I used to get made fun of in the minor leagues. I'd be 0 for 2, and then in my last at-bat I'd hit a chopper that wouldn't even reach the shortstop, and I'd get a hit out of it. The guys would be all over me, but a hit's a hit. I'll take 3,000 of 'em.

Fun Me Reach Over Out Take

Everybody complaining about their average and all that, but I wanted be in there where I can help my team no matter what situation. And a lot of days, I didn't have it.

Team Help Situation I Can Matter

At university, one of my areas of study was Victorian literature, so I decided to see if I could write a novel as carefully planned and constructed as those of George Eliot, but with the narrative energy of Dickens.

Energy Literature Write Study See

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.

Loyalty Responsibility Peace Wife Me

One can be more than once in love - that's the most important thing.

Love Important More Most Than Once

There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.

Luciano Pavarotti

Great Past You See Singer None

Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master.

Life Fear Question Master Serve

The world of the stage and the performance on the stage usually does not tend to translate very well - it doesn't tend to hold very well - once cameras are on it; it's not like it's terrible or embarrassing or bad anything, but, I, as an actor, would perform a role differently for an audience than I would for just cameras.

Jason Alexander

World Performance Bad Actor Stage

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