Douglas Henshall

Actor

1965-11-19

Quotes by Douglas Henshall

• In some respects, I was almost a country boy. I ran around in streams and rivers and all that sort of thing.

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• I wanted a jumper. After all, in Shetland you are in the land of the Fair Isle sweater. But then everyone said to avoid that - Sarah Lund has cornered the jumper market.

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• Sometimes it's easy for things get away from you, a little bit, if you have too many people coming in all the time, trying to put their mark on it. If something is successful, you don't have to do that. All you have to do is keep doing what you're doing, or have been doing.

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• My ma wanted to go and have a wee look at where all the Scottish kings had been buried. So we traipsed over Mull, in the pishing rain, with the parents desperately trying to find things to do as is the case with a holiday in Scotland, then on to Iona.

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• It's one of those weird things you start doing: you get to have on-screen teenage children and play policemen. That's what happens to you when you hit 40.

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• I don't think I am someone who sits on someone else's coat tails while others do worthwhile work.

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• For me, the best thing is the young actors that come in to the series as to see the depth and breadth of talent coming into the business is fantastic.

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