I've got the biggest crush on Patti Smith.

Shaun Evans

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Everything has to keep moving forward in 'Endeavour.' Otherwise, it will stagnate.

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I'm a total Luddite when it comes to gadgets and technology.

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I think it's important to live your life the way you want to live it. Don't live your life in fear.

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Ultimately, my boss is the audience.

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Part of being alive is dying as well.

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I think when you're in the middle of a piece of work, there are things that bleed over into your life. You're spending a large portion of your day pretending to be somebody else, to tell somebody else's story.

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While I try and give as much energy, enthusiasm and detail to any work I do, if I keep coming back to it, to the same people year after year, there's an attachment. But you don't want anything to become comfortable.

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I don't think you can work properly if you have anxiety about something; it stops you doing the work you're paid to do.

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You can make films, and often, they get released on four screens in the U.K. Although it's been interesting and good for you, if no one's seen it, what's the point?

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It's good for a story to have a strong style.

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Everyone brings their top game to Endeavour. We're very lucky. I'm glad people love it because that's our intention.

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Acting is an amazing job. I'm very lucky to do it, and when you're working with terrific people, telling stories you care about, and know it reaches an audience who care about it, too, there is an escapism in that.

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I used to have an aunty who read tea leaves. She was incredibly accurate.

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There is no point in being lazy.

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I think the trick is to leave before everyone is sick of you!

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I think it's a falsehood to think you can have some kind of plan. Acting isn't like that, it's more vocational, I think.

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I'm a big reader. And I take a lot of pictures, do a lot of writing.

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I think it is OK to surprise people.

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I'm just lucky to be working; I'm not trying to leave a legacy.

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I just don't really like starting a job if I don't know where it finishes. I want to know where something begins and ends so that you can invest something in it.

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