Phil Dunster

“You know, I keep getting cast as douchebags. I might speak to my therapist about that.”

“My coming-of-age was really learning to act.”

“Football wasn't invented until the Premier League, we all know that.”

“When I was younger, I really loved playing rugby.”

“I think I have an inbuilt British skepticism.”

“Everybody's got the things that are crap about them, and that's inescapable because we're a product of our environment and our environment isn't always great.”

“It's really fun being a douchebag but it feels very satisfying to be a douchebag for a reason.”

“All of us, as much as we like to think that we're evolved human beings, we're all still children deep down.”

“'Ted Lasso' is many things, and I think at its worst, it's a show that is nice and shows that people can be kind and also funny.”

“I'd always also been interested in being in the army because my dad was in the army and my brother is an officer in the army.”

“To be fair, there was one season a couple of years ago when I really got into 'Love Island.' My partner was super into it. It was an absolutely fascinating, in-depth look of humanity through the guys of 'Love Island.'”

“One of the things that is so exciting about football is you never know what is going to happen, there are variances.”

“How Jamie Tartt came to be Jamie Tartt was that he was originally Dani Rojas - but not as we know him now because Cristo Fernandez is Dani Rojas. They saw Cristo Fernandez and went, okay, we're going to make a character and we'll find a name for him.”

“I think a lot of comedy is about making fun of people at the expense of somebody.”

“I think the first thing that I thought I would go and do as a career was be a rugby player. I had a trial with a club and it became very clear, very quickly that that wasn't going to be what I would end up doing. I was far too small and far too much of a lightweight, both mentally and physically, to play rugby at that level.”