Charlie Hunnam Quotes

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.

Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.

It's generally more fun playing the villain

I'm usually the guy who knocks everyone out in order to get the girl.

I mean I’m 16 and 17 years wiser now. So if I could do it when I was 18 with a guy, I can certainly do it at 33 with a lady.

I always think it's better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in something that you don't have complete faith in.

So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity

I think the work is always going to be much better when it's important and personal to you.

It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.

I have too many control issues, so it just is not good for me to go and watch a film, too soon after I make it.

I think we can affect our own fates, but there's also a powerful energy that's the universe or God or whatever your unconscious recognizes that helps along your way.

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

It's always difficult to really sum up exactly why a relationship works.

In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet

I love hip hop music, I make hip hop music.

If I went to them all dressed up and flashed a nice smile for the cameras it would probably be easier for me to get work. But I just can't tolerate it.

To fight monsters, we created monsters of our own.

I've been profoundly germophobic since I was a young child. I don't want to kiss anyone but my girlfriend for my whole life.

I bought a house, and I've been decorating it

And I just want to work with good directors and good people.

I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year

I'm happy being an actor, it's what I have always wanted to do. I'm just lucky I got to do it so early.

They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.

In a work capacity I'm only interested in acting and producing

The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there.

I realise few people get to live the life they always wanted, but I'm so neurotic, I don't really think about it. I'm too busy thinking, 'I hope I don't screw up my next scene.

Most people that work in [show] business, if they're not gypsies by nature, become gypsies, just because of the reality of this business.

Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.

I obviously am cognizant of the fact that being handsome gives me greater breadth of opportunity. I'd hope that what I bring to the table far surpasses just being handsome.

I'm currently doing Undeclared an American TV show set in a college. It just got aired and got massive ratings so hopefully that'll screen in the UK soon

My philosophy about the whole thing is that awards are like gifts: it's lovely to receive them, and it is very bad form to covet them.

I get invited to literally every single movie premiere that's going on.

It's hard to smoke a pipe, and it's actually kind of brutal. It burns your mouth and your throat, and to keep it lit.

There are definitely worse people to be compared with. I think Brad Pitt makes interesting decisions.

Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along

I find aspects of the industry tedious and hard to manage.

Good-quality travel and good-quality food are the two luxuries that I never have any guilt indulging in.