Jamie Bell Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I'm just a small guy so if I'd dropped any more weight it would have been a bit ridiculous.”
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“I'm proud of my works. But there's not one thing that I can put my finger on and say, "That is my greatest achievement. That's my proudest moment." That's so tricky to me.”
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“It's hard to define somebody by one movie. I mean, unfortunately, my entire life was basically made by Billy Elliot. It was kind of created by that one catalytic moment.”
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“I think I have much more appreciation for directing and movies overall versus a performance or an actor. Their body of work is more interesting.”
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“I think a mantra I always told myself is, "No matter how many times somebody pitches the ball at you, if you swing every time, eventually one of them is going to connect." Being yourself and persistence are two things that became my daily mantras, I suppose.”
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“I think it was the sense that Turn is a spy thriller, and that's a genre that really fascinates me, in general.”
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“AMC is a fantastic network that does diverse programming, and does it at a really good level and of great quality.”
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“I remember when I first came to America and I saw posters for TV shows and I was like, "What?! Why does a television show deserve space on a billboard?"”
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“The complexity of the situation of having a war going on around you and what that delivers to you is that you have to figure out which side to take.”
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“That's just a much more enjoyable and motivating experience for me, when I can see people who are just as obsessed with the idea as I am.”
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“If the right thing came along at the right time, it would be an enormous kind of challenge.”
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“I think movie making can sometimes make you lazy in your approach. Occasionally you'll be shooting a scene and it's not even your coverage but you'll catch yourself slipping away and you'll see your mind going somewhere else. But you just can't afford to do that on stage.”
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“When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.”
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“I think as English people, we don't want to be reminded that at one point we ruled three-quarters of the globe, and now we're a very small country that doesn't own three-quarters of the globe.”
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“Your credit card, your inbox, your Hotmail.com are not particularly secure. We are being watched; it's just a part of life.”
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“Let's say that you commit a crime, you get caught, you might get sent to prison. It's going to be bad. But if you get caught spying, you're literally hanged the next morning.”
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“Sometimes great things come from doing things quickly and not over-thinking stuff.”
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“Saying "muff" to someone and trying to be romantic is incredibly difficult.”
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“The reason I do small, independent movies is because I want to keep my soul intact and maintain some kind of integrity within this industry.”
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“If you're living two lives and you're lying to everyone, you're bound to slip up, in some way, you're bound to get something wrong, and you're bound to get found out.”
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“It's a difficult position. Do you endanger your child to fight for the right thing, or do you keep your mouth shut and let your child grow up in a world where their natural rights are stripped away from them?”
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“When you have a child, you are just immediately changed forever. You put yourself second. Your child comes first, and everything that you do is with them in mind.”
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“I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings.”
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“It's weird how an actor can read a script and think 'it's really good, it's really funny, that's going to be really dramatic...' and then you get there and say: "Oh, I have to get in it? I have to get in the water?! Are you kidding?"”
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“I have a problem with heights in general - and climbing!”
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“As a kid I never had the impulse to climb anything. I think that most kids who live in small towns or rural areas outside of the city, that's what they do - climb walls, or trees, or whatever. To me, it was more dance classes and not being very boyish.”
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“New York is great for people watching and there's a bunch of amazing rooftops.”
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“It must be hard to be a female in a David Mackenzie movie. I feel like women in his films are portrayed a certain way - like broken people.”
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