James D'arcy Quotations

There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm to happy being myself.

The good guy only gets the girl in a soppy way.

It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work.

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realized I'd become an actor.

Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don't want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and characters as realistically as you can.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that.

Baddies always do get the best lines, that's the honest truth.

It's difficult to gauge that. With a bad guy you just know you're bad. To play a nice guy is harder - unless you are a very nice person like me of course.

Now here I am playing a passionate young Irishman who would die for what he believes in.

There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.

When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.

I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.

I talked to everyone about the project: actors and extras, members of the crew and passers by.

I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful.

I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.

I've played my fair share of unpleasant character, and I have to tell you that you sleep better when you're playing fun characters. You think you don't take it home with you, at the end of the filming day, but subconsciously, there's something floating around in the background there.

Your version of the truth is all that matters.

I've never done anything comedic. In all the years I've been an actor, I've never delivered one comedic line.

I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force.

I just love working. I really enjoy the work, whatever it is.

I respect journalism. I was always very aware of journalism from a very broad point of view, but I'd say my baptism by fire was doing the Donald Margulies play Time Stands Still. That for me was a real education because I spent a lot of time with some incredible journalists, war reporters particularly - Bob Woodruff, Dexter Filkins - people who were very helpful in painting the picture for me and reading the accounts of people and what they experienced, a lot of PTSD.

I'm not really very ambitious.