Brendan Coyle Quotes

Acting meant so much to me.
Brendan Coyle

Am I a household name? I still can't get my head around that.
Brendan Coyle

Around, Head, Name

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.
Brendan Coyle

Funny, Place, Themselves

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.
Brendan Coyle

Time, Long, Single

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

Life, End, Pretty

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

Father, Escape, Difficulty

I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.
Brendan Coyle

Wisdom, School, Decision

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.
Brendan Coyle

Comedy, Drama, Modern

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

Humor, Great, Truth

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.
Brendan Coyle

Humor, Great, Truth

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 there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.
Brendan Coyle

Funny, Great, Rock

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

Job, Dream, Actor

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 Factor' generation of kids now who don't accept that they're not good enough.
Brendan Coyle

Age, Good, Great

I'd seen a play of 'Richard III' in Coventry when I was 15, which sowed the seeds that you could act for a living.
Brendan Coyle

Living, Play, Act

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.
Brendan Coyle

Time, Long, Single

I'm more rooted in new plays and new writing.
Brendan Coyle

Writing, Rooted, Plays

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

Single, Looking, Meaningful

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.
Brendan Coyle

Success, Stupid, Become

It's not something that's at the forefront of my mind, but I think I'd regret it if I didn't have children.
Brendan Coyle

Mind, Children, Regret

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.
Brendan Coyle

Love, Time, Dad

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.
Brendan Coyle

Family, Sometimes, Acting

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

Looking, Miss, Qualities

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.'
Brendan Coyle

Time, Yourself, End

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

Funny, Work, Find

You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down.
Brendan Coyle

Down, Keep, Pull

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Actor

Born: December 2, 1963

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