Quotes by Daniel Mays - Page 1

God, I've played a lot of policeman.
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Policeman
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Sundays are a day for recuperation and family.
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Sundays
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I've become a lot more politicised because of Brexit.
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Brexit
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When I was 13, I was a member of a women's over-40s tap class.
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Tap
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I got an American agent. I don't know what to think about that.
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Agent
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Everyone's life is extraordinary if you look at it closely enough.
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Life Enough Look
Closely
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I had gone from job to job up in London before 'Fisherman's Friends'.
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Fisherman
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I always liked 'Doctor Who' but I wasn't a crazed fan when I was a kid.
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Doctor Who
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I like to be in character a good few hours before I arrive for filming.
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Arrive
Filming
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I try to mix the characters up and not be second guessed by the audience.
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Mix
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It's something I have always tried to do in my career - play outside the box.
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Box
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I think the great thing about 'Ashes To Ashes' is that it is very much its own show.
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Ashes
Great Thing
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Kids have got such active imaginations and they're scared of so many different things.
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Different Things
Imaginations
So Many Different Things
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A lot of the work I've done has been about being very raw and open with your emotions.
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Work Done Your
Emotions
Raw
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I certainly always do draw upon stuff in my life. You do that instinctively as an actor.
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Life My Life Always
Instinctively
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To a degree... you wanna make your way in the industry, so you kind of get what you're given at first.
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Wanna
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I come from Essex, Buckhurst Hill, where Jade Goody was buried. My hometown will forever be known for that.
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Buried
Forever
Hometown
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You see kids leave drama school who are drop-dead gorgeous and they just go stratospheric instant'aneously.
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Gorgeous
Drama School
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My older brother's a cricket groundsman, my other brother's a salesman, and my younger brother's a trader in the City.
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Cricket
Salesman
Trader
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I couldn't believe how big Ben Affleck's trailer was. It was like a spaceship - I remember thinking, I'd live in that.
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Affleck
Ben
Spaceship
Trailer
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My son and I discovered Parkland Walk with the Beavers, a gem of a trail from Highgate to Finsbury Park in north London.
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London
Son
Beaver
Discovered
Gem
Walk
North
Park
Trail
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Everyone's got that dream of Ibiza, you've either been or you want to go, because it's kind of got this mystical quality to it.
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Mystical
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White Lines' is without a doubt one of the best, most imaginative, brilliantly bonkers scripts I've ever had a chance to work on.
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Imaginative
Scripts
Brilliantly
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I'm just drawn to something that has a good story. 'Outcasts' didn't do so well, but I really admired the premise behind the show.
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Good Story
Admired
Drawn
Premise
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I guess I'm always drawn to the underbelly of someone, really, as opposed to how heroic they are. I don't judge those sorts of people.
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Heroic
Judge
Always People How
Drawn
Guess
People Always Someone
Opposed
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I eat porridge all week, but Sundays are for something more exciting. I make a mean fry-up - to be honest that's pretty much all I can cook.
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Honest
Pretty
Cook
Sundays
To Be Honest
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At drama school I learned the Stanislavski technique, which uses sentimental memories and bits of your past to put real emotion into the scene.
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Bits
Real Emotion
Sentimental
Technique
Drama School
Uses
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I've never been burgled. I don't quite know what I would do if it was the dead of night and there was someone in the house, and my kids were asleep upstairs.
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Upstairs
Asleep
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I'm a very placid human being. I don't want to kill anyone. I guess I have played a lot of bad people in my career, so frustrations or angst can come out in any given role.
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Angst
Bad People
People Bad Bad People
Frustrations
Bad People Bad People
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I'd describe 'Born to Kill' as a 'study in psychopathy', it's very much in the heads of our main protagonist, Sam, a young boy dealing with dark, twisted psychotic desires. It's also a coming-of-age story.
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Born
Dark
Psychotic
Study
Twisted
Boy
Dealing
Describe
Heads
Main
Protagonist
Sam
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Ever since the commercial smash that was 'The Full Monty', we've always made films about underdogs. It's something that embodies Britishness and that sense of community and people punching above their weight.
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Monty
Punching
Weight
Above
Always Community People
Commercial
Embodies
Community People Always
Smash
Underdogs
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Yeah, it's every parent's worst nightmare, to lose connection with your children, to not fully engage with them or have an understanding of what crowd of people they're mixing with, what they are watching online.
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Mixing
Nightmare
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But the calibre of actors that they attract to come and do the guest leads on 'Doctor Who' is fantastic. You weigh it up, and in this series alone, there's Hugh Bonneville, Frances Barber, David Walliams. Toby Jones has done it.
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Doctor Who
Attract
Barber
Guest
Hugh
Leads
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Before filming I'll be constantly thinking about my role at the back of my mind and slowly build up the intensity until I can explode on set. There is a very fine line between not quite getting there, and getting that bit too intense.
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Intense
Filming
Explode
Slowly
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I worked on 'Line of Duty' with Vicky McClure after she'd just finished the last series of 'This Is EnglandI think the great thing about 'Ashes To Ashes' is that it is very much its own show. and I kept nagging her to find out how it ended.
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Ashes
Finished
Series
Ended
Great Thing
Line
Worked
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I went to stage school, I went to Rada, I've been in this London bubble for as long as I can remember, which is involved with being as inclusive and accepting of any people from different countries, different walks of life, different religion - that's who I am.
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Different Countries
Involved
London
Walks
Bubble
Countries
Inclusive
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I listen to music to try and focus or concentrate on emotional characters, which is quite common among actors. It might seem cheesy, but I particularly listen to Coldplay because I'm moved by their lyrics. But any music can help depending on the character and their mood.
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Cheesy
Mood
Coldplay
Concentrate
Depending
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