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24 quotes by Brendan Coyle

Brendan Coyle (born 2 December 1963) is an English actor. He is well known to television audiences for playing Nicholas Higgins in the miniseries North & South, Robert Timmins in the first three series of Lark Rise to Candleford, and John Bates, the valet, in Downton Abbey. The last role earned him a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
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I would have loved to have been a footballer like my great uncle Matt Busby, but I knew quite early on that I wasn't going to make the grade.... →

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You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down.

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I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't... →

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I had to escape the destruction of my father's bankruptcy and all that difficulty.

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I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

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I took a gamble in becoming an actor and my dream job has been realised.

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I'm going to be 50 soon. I'm single, I'm looking for something meaningful. By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you... →

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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... →

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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... →

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Am I a household name? I still can't get my head around that.

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

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Acting meant so much to me.

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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.

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