I love science and that time in history when science and the humanities were the same thing.
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.
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.
I just do my day job and go home and plant trees.
That's what I always hoped for when I became an actor - that you would do something that people can escape to, find identification with and excitement in and be able to talk about it in bars, restaurants, and workplaces.
My parents saw their job of parenting as their most important role in life, and I aim to aspire to that.
Changing diapers is one of the most leveling things that has ever happened to me.
When I see a friend play Hamlet or see an inspirational performance, I absolutely get excited by the idea of changing things up.
My No. 1 responsibility when I'm not slaying zombies is being a parent.
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.
Even though I'm an actor, I'm a very bad liar.
I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.
You never think about your own mortality. At least not until your back gives way when you're 40.
Atlanta is an incredibly cool city.
When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.
I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.
Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me.
I think my wife has always been aware, whatever country we have been in, of my dramatic leading man status; a little too dramatic she would probably say.
I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character.
I like to think that I've got determination, and I'm fiercely protective of the people I love.
