29 Quotes by Brendan Coyle

Sometimes I think I missed out on things like travelling. I'd have been terrified of missing an audition. I didn't start a family because that's not something I take lightly. Acting meant so much to me.

You can't be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.

My dad was a master butcher and I trained to be a butcher when I left school. I didn't enjoy it at the time but I love cooking now, so perhaps I would have been a chef.

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

If this TV success had come in my twenties and I'd become a heart-throb, I would have been very stupid. I would have got into a lot of situations that I really wished I hadn't.

I'd seen a play of 'Richard III' in Coventry when I was 15, which sowed the seeds that you could act for a living.

Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.

By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.

I can pretty much say all of us know when 'Downton' is going to end. This is a show with a finite life.