Shaun Evans

It helps to be more interested in other people than you are in yourself. Inhabiting other characters is what I do.

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.

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

There is no point in being lazy.

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

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.

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

I think it is OK to surprise people.

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.

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

In Liverpool, where I live, we have a brilliant library which has been refurbished, and I like going there.

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.

As a kid, I was always more interested in watching others than being the centre of attention. I've always felt that you can see a lot more and learn a lot more when you're standing on the edge.

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

Part of being alive is dying as well.

If you love people, tell them you love them.

If you put too much pressure on the idea of people watching you, it stops you being able to watch people.

I watch Channel 4 News every day. I love it. I rarely watch any other news programme. There's just something about it - and I'm not talking about Jon Snow's ties and socks, but I appreciate those, too.

When I was in my late teens, I discovered 'Fawlty Towers' and 'Monty Python,' and they still make me laugh.

With all due respect, I have a job to do, and that is to try and make 'Endeavour' the best it can be.

I don't really think of myself as the sporty type. But I'll have a go at anything.

I'm delighted to be working on 'Casualty.' It's a terrific cast and crew, and I'm very grateful for the opportunity.

I don't do any social media. I'm not on Facebook or Twitter. I'm just not interested.

I guess I've always been something of an outsider.

Don't be losing sleep over tiny things. Life is complicated enough.