David Warner Quotes

United Kingdom, Actor
July 29, 1941

David Hattersley Warner (born 29 July 1941) is an English actor who played both romantic leads and sinister or villainous characters across a range of media, including stage, film, animation, television and video games. He has a worldwide following for his many appearances in the Star Trek TV and feature-film franchise.

I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.

David Warner
- Happy
My early life was a bit of a mess but it was no one's fault. It was just how it was.

David Warner
- Life

I know that some actors take acting terribly seriously. I take it seriously in that if someone pays me to do it I know I have to deliver.

David Warner
There were certain young actors I had trained with at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art who had always got the big parts and I was always the spear-carrier. Suddenly the roles were reversed and I couldn't understand why, and nor could they.

David Warner
- Art
- Why
To tell an ally - who is shedding blood next to you - that you can't share information is a crime.

David Warner
If people are given quality stuff to watch, they'll watch it.

David Warner
- People
- Quality
Americans who have travelled and who have English friends know we are not necessarily all baddies, but I think that seeing us being so incessantly nasty on screen has a drip, drip, drip effect on the rest of them.

David Warner
- Friends
- Rest
- English
There wasn't a single good character in 'Titanic' who was English and this is typical.

David Warner
- Good
- Character
- Single

On film sets, people get put down in public a lot.

David Warner
- People