Top 45 Quotes & Sayings by Andrew Lincoln

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English actor Andrew Lincoln.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Andrew James Clutterbuck, known professionally as Andrew Lincoln, is an English actor. His first major role was as the character Egg in the BBC drama This Life (1996–1997). Lincoln later portrayed Simon Casey in the Channel 4 sitcom Teachers (2001–2003), Mark in the Christmas-themed romantic comedy film Love Actually (2003) and Dr. Robert Bridge in the ITV television series Afterlife (2005–2006).

English - Actor | Born: September 14, 1973

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I'm much more indecisive and a people-pleaser than someone who's willing to step into the firing line.

Andrew Lincoln

When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.

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I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

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I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character.

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Even though I'm an actor, I'm a very bad liar.

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I always want to go to the movies and watch something and be moved by something or feel things.

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I dispute the idea that we turn into our parents. These children who have come into my life are unique beings. I don't think I am teaching my children anything, frankly. I think they are teaching me.

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There is nothing like mortal fear to galvanize a friendship.

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I'm not going to pretend I'm some saint, because I'm not.

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History turns me on. I was terrible at it at in school, but as I get older, I get more and more into it.

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Having children was a revelation - it's like going through a doorway, and everything is different forever.

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Changing diapers is one of the most leveling things that has ever happened to me.

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My parents saw their job of parenting as their most important role in life, and I aim to aspire to that.

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The thing that I love about Rick Grimes is that he pulls himself off the canvas even when he has been pummeled to the ground so many times. And either he gets up by himself - he drags himself up - or he is helped up by loved ones around him.

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There's a whole generation in England who think I'm American, thanks to 'The Walking Dead.' It's an interesting phenomenon of being an actor longer than 25 years because you can tell what people know you from.

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People are always invading your personal space on set, especially on 'The Walking Dead.'

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I wasn't a great student. My brother is 18 months older than me, so he sort of forged the way for me at school.

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When you are an actor every day kind of morphs into one as there is no set structure to my job.

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The whole vanity aspect of building up different muscles - I have no interest.

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I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.

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Guilt is an emotion that is never very far away from Rick Grimes. He's a man that shoulders the responsibility, and it's one of the forces that keeps pushing him on.

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I don't really have any regrets because if I choose not to do something there is usually a very good reason. Once I've made the decision I don't view it as a missed opportunity, just a different path.

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I've always wanted to work in America because of those brilliant east-coast political movies of the '70s and '80s - great scripts, wonderful performances, gritty urban parable.

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When I see a friend play Hamlet or see an inspirational performance, I absolutely get excited by the idea of changing things up.

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Guilt is never very far from Rick Grimes' shoulder. It comes with the package. He's a man who takes his responsibilities very heavily, not lightly.

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I think my wife has always been aware, whatever country we have been in, of my dramatic leading man status; a little too dramatic she would probably say.

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If a fantasy, if a story can help you feel something, I think that's really cool.

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I like to think that I've got determination, and I'm fiercely protective of the people I love.

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You never think about your own mortality. At least not until your back gives way when you're 40.

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I love acting. I just love it. It's in my bones.

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I just do my day job and go home and plant trees.

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If you love a character that gets killed, it's agony.

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I would find myself getting deeply distressed if I lived in hindsight all the time.

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I love science and that time in history when science and the humanities were the same thing.

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Atlanta is an incredibly cool city.

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My No. 1 responsibility when I'm not slaying zombies is being a parent.

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Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me.

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That's what I always hoped for when I became an actor - that you would do something that people can escape to, find identification with and excitement in and be able to talk about it in bars, restaurants, and workplaces.

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Robert Kirkman can't bear it when I wear flip-flops. He takes pictures of my flip-flops and keeps sending them to me, like, 'What are you doing? Rick Grimes is not a flip-flop kind of guy.'

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In western culture, we have ignored death. We're running the other way - everything is about life and youth. So, there's something resonant about walking around with our own death masks. Zombies are the visible embodiment of death staring at us with our own faces.

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Scott Wilson (Hershel) is a god among men

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Realizing that my children are the center of the universe and not me is probably one of the greatest ways to acclimatize.

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There's no better way to unplug than having children. Changing diapers is one of the most leveling things that has ever happened to me.

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I love acting. I just love it. It's in my bones. I remember when I was a kid, I watched an interview with Dennis Hopper talking about Jimmy Dean on the set of Rebel Without A Cause. Jimmy said to him, "If you've got to cry in a scene, you've got to cry. Make it real." And that's all that I believe in.

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I take the fan response very seriously and respond personally to my fan mail.

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Top 45 Quotes & Sayings by Andrew Lincoln

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