33 Quotes by Kris Marshall

I always hoped I'd end up playing a lot cooler roles. I do end up playing quite a lot of idiot savants, and I've actually started to revel in that slightly.

As brilliant as those dark Scandi noir dramas are, not everything has to be shot down a Danish alleyway.

I'm actually really bad at puzzles.

I like playing characters who are really, really quite uncomfortable with life, uncomfortable in their own skin.

I spent about eight months of my year on 'Death in Paradise', so it doesn't leave a massive amount of time to do other stuff.

I like to do everything, if I can. There's a lot of roles which I would have loved to have taken that went to other people.

You have an ideal of masculinity to live up to, and then there's everything else on top. You have to be a perfect husband. You have to be in shape. Apart from alcohol and exercise, there are very few outlets for men.

Not everything has to be 'The Bridge' or 'The Wire'. Those shows are brilliant. But you have to invest your cerebellum in them.

So I've never made a conscious decision to cajole people into thinking I'm not that slacker guy from 'My Family' anymore.