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David Oakes

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[Wikipedia] Rowan David Oakes is an English actor, ecologist and conservationist. He is best known for his roles in the series The Pillars of the Earth, The Borgias, The White Queen, Victoria, Vikings: Valhalla, and for his discursive Natural History podcast, Trees A Crowd. He currently serves as Vice President

Quotes by David Oakes

You're in the public eye and you get treated better than royalty, and then you're dropped down to earth with nothing. You…

Bigs

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I'm not actually a psychopath. I don't look evil. People don't normally want to put me in the same kind of things…

Actors

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I don't really have dream roles. Every single time I've gotten a great job, it's far exceeded my expectations and my dreams.

Dream

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You work [as an actor] for a bit, and then the job ends 'cause you get thrown off a bridge. And then,…

Actors

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You'd put yourself in a play and get to know the system and learn how to be directed, and then you could…

Cinema

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I love it [a career as an actor] to bits, but it's highly bizarre, especially when you're playing a psychopathic rapist with…

Actors

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The thing about being on a long-running series is that you get to know all the stunt men and the stunt coordinators,…

Coordinator

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