Andrew Lincoln

“My parents saw their job of parenting as their most important role in life, and I aim to aspire to that.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There is nothing like mortal fear to galvanize a friendship.”

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

“Robert Kirkman can't bear it when I wear flip-flops. He takes pictures of my flip-flops and keeps sending them to me, like, 'What are you doing? Rick Grimes is not a flip-flop kind of guy.'”

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

“If a fantasy, if a story can help you feel something, I think that's really cool.”

“I wasn't a great student. My brother is 18 months older than me, so he sort of forged the way for me at school.”

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

“I would find myself getting deeply distressed if I lived in hindsight all the time.”

“I love acting. I just love it. It's in my bones.”

“I dispute the idea that we turn into our parents. These children who have come into my life are unique beings. I don't think I am teaching my children anything, frankly. I think they are teaching me.”

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

“Atlanta is an incredibly cool city.”

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

“I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.”

“Having children was a revelation - it's like going through a doorway, and everything is different forever.”

“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.”

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