Linus Roache Quotes

I just love variety. I love being able to do different things. Do period pieces and sci-fi. I love being able to move between genres and be flexible.

You can’t play everything you learn, anyway. You just try to bring it all on-board and use what’s useful. In the end, it’s your job to own the role and, in the end, you are playing certain aspects of your own self, even.

As an actor, when you’re actually trying to embody what it would be like to just know that everyone’s at your beck and call, it’s quite a thing to absorb what that might be like and what that would do.

I’d be willing to do anything. I’m not precious. I’d wash dishes.

New York, without a doubt, is my favorite city in the world.

There’s so much cynicism around in Britain, especially in the press. The American press might be naive, but at least you feel as if they’re on your side.

I realised success as an actor alone wouldn’t make me happy. I needed to explore my spiritual side in more depth.

Most of the TV shows I’ve done have all been in the U.S.

In modern times, if you’re on an airplane and it’s going down, that’s it. You’ve got a couple of minutes, if that, to work out where you stand in relationship to the whole of your life.

Trying to act cold is a challenge when your makeup’s running and sweat is pouring down your neck.

I love working in films.

Dad has always been – and still is – a great influence on me. He has always stood up for spirit, staying true to his beliefs… and I like to do the same with regard to my own true beliefs, regardless of potential criticism or mockery.

It seems to me that whatever path you choose to take, in the end its up to each of us to try, test and live what we find out, to apply it and see what actually works, and that’s the exciting and challenging part of this very real adventure.

Both my parents are actors, in very different ways.