Andrew Lincoln Quotes

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Andrew Lincoln

Profession : Actor

Birth : September 14, 1973

There is nothing like mortal fear to galvanize a friendship.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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