Booth Quotes

One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.

This is a boy's lot: anything he does, anything whatever, may afterward turn out to have been a crime - he never knows. And punishment and clemency are alike inexplicable.

I'd imagine a great date would be to go skiing. Imagine going skiing. Go ski with someone, if they can ski.

I think it's more important to seek the truth than to try and be perfect, to be honest.

I love movies. That's still my favorite form of escape, and I usually end up going alone. I love to go and sit in the theater by myself, no distractions.

I grew up in London, and that's where I spend most of my time. Unless I have a really good reason not to be, I'll always be in London.

Sometimes things are nothing on paper, but a genius director turns it into something amazing.

Being blinded by young love. I remember the feeling, when I first fell in love - you don't see the world the same way that other people see it. You don't see the same boundaries.

I've spent a lot of my teenage years working on sets. I've missed out on more than just playing rugby, but I think I've managed to keep my feet on the ground and keep my friends around me.

It's better to think of life as a proper journey with a beginning and an end. Maybe, I can settle for being immortalised on screen.

I fell in love at 14 and I remember that mad, tense feeling and all the mad things you do for the person - all those extremes and all the stuff you don't mind putting up with.

I love to dance and dance all night long.

I dreamt of being an actor ever since I was young.

You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything.

I love the challenge of playing characters forced on life-changing emotional journeys. To work on a project with Billy Crudup and Sam Rockwell is just a dream come true.

I was lucky enough to get a very good agent at the age of 15, and got my first film when I was 16, so it's been rolling on since then.

I'm just trying to choose interesting, quirky projects or things with interesting directors or just movies that have a lot of people I like attached to them so I know I'm going to have a good time.

Every year I look at the 'GQ' Best-Dressed List and have thought what an honour it must be to be included. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw my own face in there.

Sometimes a script comes along that really makes you sit up and pay attention... 'Life at These Speeds' has an emotional intensity that really kicked me in the guts.

It's really important to take time for yourself because if you don't know what it is like to be a real person and spend time with a sense of normality, how can you play normal people in films?

I live for challenges. In my career, all I want to do is try to challenge myself and have a varied career.

Obviously, you never shoot the scenes of a film in order or only very rarely.

The best thing I've ever done for a girl hopefully is make them happy. Isn't that the most romantic thing you can do?

I like to travel, but honestly I really like to just be at home in London and spend time with my friends.

When I meet girls, I pray that they don't know who I am. But I know that's limiting myself quite a lot.

As a kid, I used to run around our garden waving a stick and pretending to be a million different people. That's why I became an actor, really.

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I am dyslexic, so I really struggled in school. I knew I was never going to sit behind a desk or do something involving numbers.

I remember someone saying to my mom that it must be so glamorous to have a child acting in movies. They had no idea how hard it was for her.

I had friends who ran off to become ski instructors or worked in cool bars, and I often envied them, but I know I'd quickly become bored with that kind of life. I always need to push myself.

When I do go to L.A., it is usually for a reason - to meet with a director or something - but I'm always so happy to go back to London.

I don't think I've reached perfection by any stretch of the imagination, but maybe someday I'll become a perfectionist.

I'm still in the first baby steps of my career, so I've got so much to learn and so much to figure out.

I live alone so I always just eat out. When I'm in another relationship, then maybe we'll start cooking together.

More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.

I suppose to a certain degree. London's my favorite place on the planet and the reason for that is its fantastic diversity.

I live by myself, which I love. In this industry, you're so often surrounded by people and busy and talking to people. It's kind of lovely when you get home to just chill out.

I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I took up the trumpet and just did that every day and practiced that.

I got cast in a school play and I fell in love with that. I felt comfortable on stage and found out it was a brilliant way of expressing myself and I was happy and I could do it.

I think we can't feed the amount of people that are on this planet the way we are doing it.

I like to cook Vietnamese pho or vegetarian curries. I need to cook more but I need somebody to cook with.

Each character you play has its own set of characteristics, for want of a better word.

History is the seed bed of the future.

This sounds geeky, but when I run, I like to listen to musicals like Les Miserables. The soundtracks are 75 minutes or longer, and I keep going until the story ends, so it feels like a good workout.

There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it.

I think I have done well, though I am abandoned, with the curse of Cain upon me.

we are prisoners of our own lives, until we find the courage to break free from the prison that we created ourselves.

I enjoy books. No room is fit for occupation without a lining of books.

Like so many women for whom money has always been provided without their understanding how, she was prepared to be a thorough and irresponsible plunger.

Change is your gateway to opportunity, opportunities will lead you to a new and fulfilling life.

Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.