19 Quotes by Gwilym Lee

When you play guest parts, you play your story in a very urgent kind of way.

I'm very keen on outdoor things, lots of running and cycling.

I'm a hoarder.

Yes, I love going to fittings and talking about the history of a costume. For 'Versailles,' a play set in 1919, the costume designer told me that pocket squares had just been introduced. The tango was becoming fashionable in London, and dancers used them to mop their brows. I love to learn fascinating stuff like that.

When I get a job, I buy one really nice thing to have something to show for it.

At drama school, a casting director asked the class to walk round the room one at a time, and we had to imagine who they might be. The two before me were described as a doctor and a businessman, but when it came to me, they said homeless person. That was when I thought I'd better do something about my appearance!

I have a huge family of friends, and they are all best.

I'm a policeman on television but an absolute wuss in real life.

My parents have always been incredibly supportive, driving me back and forth to Stratford and so on. They realised from an early age that I wouldn't go into medicine because I couldn't do biology and chemistry.