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

- David Morrissey

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

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

- David Morrissey

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

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

- David Morrissey

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

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

- David Morrissey

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

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

- David Morrissey