Brett Goldstein

“I was making short films and putting on plays at school. I was also in love with my teacher, so yeah - I was the kid in 'Rushmore.'”

“There are ways of swearing that express all of your love and emotions.”

“I think everyone is interesting if you ask the right question.”

“I would rate my TV football skills as an amazing achievement by the editors.”

“The greatest thing about stand-up is that it is the opposite of making a film.”

“Quite early on when it came out, I was outside my front door and the man who lives opposite me ran across the street and he went, 'Ted Blasso! Ted Blasso!'”

“'Ted Lasso' is a show about a guy who is ignorant - he doesn't know anything about football. But he's not arrogant and he's not shouting people down.”

“I'll always do stand-up.”

“Everyone wants to be better because of making 'Ted Lasso' and the way we make it.”

“The film that I go on about and drive people mad is 'Don't Look Now' with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland. It's the best married couple acting you have ever seen in any film, the way they are together.”

“Film is a real good way to get deep with someone.”

“Fame and success and awards should never be the aim. The aim should be: Are you enjoying the making of the thing?”

“I think there's something weird about how we always say, 'It takes a village to raise a child,' but when it comes to our relationships, we believe in only one person to do everything. When you put it like that, that's mad.”

“Something I think is amazing about 'Ted Lasso,' and we didn't know if it would work, but it's funny when you think about it, in that it's quite unique, but from the responses that we're getting, it seems to be a show that people watch with their families.”

“I have genuine empathy for the fact that if you're a professional footballer, you've often started at three years old, you've been found, you've been scouted, you play, you play, you play, you make millions, you live this incredible life. And then you reach 35, and suddenly you have to stop doing it, and you haven't been taught anything else.”

“I think it's quite easy to get caught up in the discussions about a show that people are having. But you have to tell the story you were going to tell.”

“I usually play a softer character.”

“In America, I think most actors wish they were rock stars, but I think in England most people wish they were footballers.”

“If I'm watching a heavy drama and there's no moment of people laughing, I always think that's not realistic.”

“I like that 'Scrubs' is very funny and silly and broad, but also emotional and real - sometimes within the same scene.”