Quotes from Andrew Lincoln

People are always invading your personal space on set, especially on 'The Walking Dead.'

I just do my day job and go home and plant trees.

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.

My No. 1 responsibility when I'm not slaying zombies is being a parent.

History turns me on. I was terrible at it at in school, but as I get older, I get more and more into it.

You never think about your own mortality. At least not until your back gives way when you're 40.

The whole vanity aspect of building up different muscles - I have no interest.

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.

When you are an actor every day kind of morphs into one as there is no set structure to my job.

Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me.

If you love a character that gets killed, it's agony.

I don't really have any regrets because if I choose not to do something there is usually a very good reason. Once I've made the decision I don't view it as a missed opportunity, just a different path.

Even though I'm an actor, I'm a very bad liar.