David Morrissey's Quotes

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

I think I'm quite a lazy person, actually. If I'm not careful, I could just stay in bed all day.

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.

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

I'm a massive fan of Brit Art in general and Damien Hirst in particular. I think he's an absolute genius and should be celebrated in every way.

I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.

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

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

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.

It's always good to find out what you don't want to do.

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

Liverpool will always be my home.

My house is very clean apart from a very small part of it that looks as if we've been burgled, which is my office.

My son got me into 'The Mighty Boosh.' I just love that surrealist humour.

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.

The great thing about being an actor is things happen to you very quickly. I like to put myself in the way of surprise.

The thing as an actor is you get a sense of what a show is like the minute you walk on the set.

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.

Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them after you have given up? This is the paradox of letting go. Let go, in order to achieve. Letting go is God's law.

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

Often we lose our identity trying to please or placate others.

We are all created in the image of our Creator - Love itself.

Creation's gold mine is in you. The key is deliberate intention. Whatever your dream may be at this moment, identify it. If you cannot define your desire, it can never become a reality.

Deep down, I know that I am a child of God who has inherited divine capacities; some of them I strive to develop, others are left languishing. I also have a human side. I lose my temper, lose patience and sometimes judge others and myself.

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?

God intended Earth. God intended the waters. God intended you and me. We were created in the image and the likeness of God; we are holograms, if you will. So the power, the presence, the energy is within you and me. The energy of God, as life, is within each of us.

I learned a long time ago that if I really wanted to bring my ideas into experience, I needed to write down my intentions. When you put pen to paper, you have little choice but to get specific. The actual process of forming your thoughts into words on a page is a creative act, a genesis, moving energy toward the very thing you want to experience.

My son John was just under a year old when I collapsed with a life-threatening kidney disease. The shame and guilt resulting from my unplanned pregnancy had continued to fester to the point that my toxic feelings literally poisoned my body.