Quotes by Brendan Coyle

About Brendan Coyle:

Brendan Coyle is an English actor who played 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. Luckily I was told by the age of 13 that I wasn't good enough. That's not a bad thing. You see this 'X Facto...

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Sometimes I think I missed out on things like travelling. I'd have been terrified of missing an audition. I didn't start a family because that's not something I take lightly. Acting meant so much to me.

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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 would have been a chef.

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I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.

Brendan Coyle

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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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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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 audience to work.

Brendan Coyle

I think with Sky and BBC Three and Channel 4, there are some great television platforms, and the stand-up movement in this country is phenomenal. It's like rock n' roll here. Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of the...

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The qualities I am looking for in Miss Right are intelligence and humour.

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I can pretty much say all of us know when 'Downton' is going to end. This is a show with a finite life.

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By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.

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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 can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.

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When I was in my 30s, I was at the end of a long-term relationship and going through a very hard time. I'd had about 15 different addresses and a series of relationships. I thought, 'It's time to have a look at yourself.'

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If this TV success had come in my twenties and I'd become a heart-throb, I would have been very stupid. I would have got into a lot of situations that I really wished I hadn't.

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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'm more rooted in new plays and new writing.

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I'm single, I'm looking for something meaningful.

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

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Acting meant so much to me.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameBrendan Coyle
  • DescriptionActor
  • BornDecember 2, 1963
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor
  • AwardsLaurence Olivier Award