You'd put yourself in a play and get to know the system and learn how to be directed, and then you could be a director. So, I've just always done it.…

- David Oakes

I don't really have dream roles. Every single time I've gotten a great job, it's far exceeded my expectations and my dreams.

- David Oakes

You work [as an actor] for a bit, and then the job ends 'cause you get thrown off a bridge. And then, you suddenly don't have a career and you have t…

- David Oakes

The thing about being on a long-running series is that you get to know all the stunt men and the stunt coordinators, and they let you pretty much do …

- David Oakes

You're in the public eye and you get treated better than royalty, and then you're dropped down to earth with nothing. You may not have any money for …

- David Oakes

I'm not actually a psychopath. I don't look evil. People don't normally want to put me in the same kind of things afterward, so I'm looking forward t…

- David Oakes

I love it [a career as an actor] to bits, but it's highly bizarre, especially when you're playing a psychopathic rapist with various diseases.

- David Oakes