Jamie Bell Quotes
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.
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.
I have, I think, eight mentors. It's crazy, but I need them. They are all really important to me. They keep me grounded and advise me.
If you have created an image of yourself at 13 and it is still with you at 17, it needs to be dropped.
I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.
I don't think there's a lot of actors out there right now who really know what they're doing at all.
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.
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.
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?"
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.
AMC is a fantastic network that does diverse programming, and does it at a really good level and of great quality.
I think it was the sense that Turn is a spy thriller, and that's a genre that really fascinates me, in general.
If the right thing came along at the right time, it would be an enormous kind of challenge.
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.
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.
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.
I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things.
I'm just a small guy so if I'd dropped any more weight it would have been a bit ridiculous.
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.
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.
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.
I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own.
When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.
I don't think many people can say they've been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.
I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.
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.
Your credit card, your inbox, your Hotmail.com are not particularly secure. We are being watched; it's just a part of life.
I actually don't mind rats at all. I kind of think they're quite cute, but that's just me.