Dan Stevens Quotes

• I never quite toed the line.

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• I was a pretty difficult teenager.

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• I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

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• I’m a huge fan of Eighties music.

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• I was never very happy at school.

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• I’m amazed by just constantly – there’s not a week that goes past where there’s not someone in Ulan Bator or Rio De Janeiro suddenly says, ‘Ooh, ‘Downton’ started this week.’ You completely forget it’s staggered across the world.

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• I’m lucky to be married to someone who entirely gets what I do. She is totally sympathetic to the actor’s life. Her own mother was an actress, so she sort of grew up with it.

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• I’m shocked at being recognized.

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• I’m shocked at being recognized. You go to places you don’t think you would be and still, you are. Taxi drivers often recognise me… but I haven’t got a free ride yet.

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• I’m sure I wouldn’t have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren’t for ‘Downton.’

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• I’ve had to learn when not to tweet. Like, you learn how to keep your mouth shut? Learn to keep your tweet shut.

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• I’ve never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas.

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• In the 21st century, I think it’s fair to say, homosexuality is more accepted in Britain and it’s wonderful that my generation has been able to grow up with that.

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• It’s head and heart. I like to feed both. I always wanted to be an actor. But the cultural-intellectual side of things has always excited me. I wouldn’t want to let it go.

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• It’s nice to get your glad rags on for awards like the Baftas, but it doesn’t happen all the time.

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• My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small – panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There’s traditionally a part of the show where they’ll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.

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• My dad’s family were pretty working class, actually.

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• Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.

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• None of us had any idea of how successful Downton was going to be. I thought I was signing up for another period drama that had a slightly modern feel. It had a freedom about it because it was coming out of the head of Julian Fellowes. Anything could happen and generally did.

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• The Broadway audiences are very vocal and seem very engaged. For certain shows, especially with a show like ‘The Heiress,’ the audience’s reactions sound like ‘The Jerry Springer Show’ sometimes. That seems to be a very New York thing. Oh, there’s also the entrance round of applause here, which we don’t get too much in London.

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Dan Stevens (52)

Birth:	10th October, 1982
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor

About

Daniel Jonathan "Dan" Stevens was born in Croydon, London, England. He is a British actor. He studied English Literature at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In 2004, Stevens began his professional acting career when Peter Hall cast him as Orlando in his touring production of Shakespeare's As You Like It. In 2006, Stevens starred as Nick Guest in the BBC adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst's Booker Prize-winning novel The Line of Beauty. In 2010, Stevens got his biggest break when he was cast as Matthew Crawley in the ITV series Downton Abbey, created and written by Oscar-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes. The series went on to be a global sensation, and has been nominated for several Emmy, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards since its debut. He earned a Saturn Award for Best Actor nomination for his performance.

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