Top 78 Quotes & Sayings by Asa Butterfield

When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.

I'm a pretty normal person outside of the film world. It doesn't really affect me when I'm at school or with my mates.

I do have people looking up to me, which is still kind of weird to me. 'I'm like, 'Why? What have I done?'

I've played a worrying number of orphans, children who have been abandoned or had something terrible happen to them.

As an actor, depending on who you are, you might be stopped on the street and might not get all the privacy you want, but I'd rather have that than no human connection whatsoever.

I don't look for anything in particular, like a particular genre. It's all very much to do with the quality of the script and the character as well.

You might only get three takes to do a scene; sometimes it takes longer than that to find those moments.

I like science fiction. I am quite a technologically kind of up-to-date person. I like seeing what the new developments are.

For me, I value connection a lot, talking to people and connecting. Don't get me wrong: I enjoy having my own time, but I think it's really important to have that connection, so living on Mars would be a struggle for me.

I work and come home and just have a type of normal home life. It's what I've always wanted. I've never felt like I'm pressured into doing something and that I've got loads of responsibility.

I'm very optimistic. I'm happy-go-lucky, I guess. I try to be.

Whilst I've got these opportunities, and whilst I still love doing it, acting is something I can see myself continuing forever until I get bored of it.

When you're hanging there twenty feet off the ground, surrounded by green screen, and all you've got is the other actor and the wonderful Gavin Hood shouting instructions at you as to what's going on; it's a really unique experience.

I always think that trying to push yourself as an actor in a direction that you've never been before, developing characters which are more difficult to get into the head of, or are more interesting and further away from yourself, is always a challenge. But, you want to take up that challenge and try your best.

I think I can speak for a lot of people in that they would be pretty nervous about meeting Harrison Ford, and I was definitely one of those people.

I never wanted to be home-schooled. I didn't like the idea of being home-schooled.

I watched films growing up, but no more than the next guy, really. Working on 'Hugo' made me appreciate cinema and the art of cinema a lot more.

I did a film, 'X+Y', in which I played somebody on the autistic spectrum. It's a subject I didn't know very much about, but being an actor gives yourself the opportunity to really immerse yourself in that world and learn things. It's one of the great things about what I do.

One of the things that I really enjoyed playing with Ender was how he's constantly struggling between his brother and his sister. It's like he's got two sides to him. And I've always wanted to play a darker character, and in this film and in the novel, Ender has his moments where he isn't a glorified hero.

People think when you're moving in Zero-G, it's like moving in jelly. But it's not. You're completely free to move however fast as you want.

I've never done a horror movie, like a full-on gore slasher film.

I'd really likely to shoot wildlife documentaries. I watched so many of those as a child, and I'm quite into wildlife and love photography as well, so that's something I'd like to do.

That was the most important thing to me: making sure 'Gardner Elliot' was likeable and funny and interesting. I took my time before filming to chat with Peter, the director, to create this character.

I always think that trying to push yourself as an actor in a direction that you've never been before, developing characters which are more difficult to get into the head of, or are more interesting and further away from yourself, is always a challenge.

A kid actor to an adult actor is a tricky one.

All of the other books in the series... none of them are particularly like 'Ender's Game.'

I think having a character piece is great. It will challenge you and be different.

When you're working in the industry, and you're working with people who are well known and are so regarded, you do just pick up on things. Talking to people and hearing their stories, you learn a lot.

My little sister, who is four, can work my mom's iPhone better than she can.

I've been in a few films that have been adapted and, as an actor, the amount of resources and things you can gain just from reading the story, as well as the script, are so massive that it's something you just can't put down.

I don't like to set myself goals because then you might fail to reach them. I just go with the flow.

For me, not just the character of 'Ender', but the whole world is so beautifully crafted in the novel that I wasn't sure how it could be brought to the screen - but Gavin has done it justice, and he's done it amazingly.

It wasn't until I did 'Hugo' where I sort of started to think that this could be something that I do for a long time - not necessarily the rest of my life, but we'll see.

When you're acting, you do have to prepare yourself for doing that. You have to leave behind - or you try and leave behind - anything that's going on in your personal life.

I think I'm good at playing dramatic and serious roles, but it's not necessarily what I want to keep doing.

I just read the scripts that come to me, and I see the ones which I really kind of understand and connect with, whether that's a science fiction or a period piece. It doesn't really matter as long as they're original and I have something to do with the character.

When things don't go your way, you brush it aside and carry on. Don't take what you have for granted. Enjoy what you have.

I would go back to school after working on a movie, and it didn't feel I missed anything, like I had been away. I did mature pretty quickly, though, but I still sound pretty immature sometimes.

I don't really like scary movies. I mean, I didn't as a kid, but I think I got a bit better now. I've been easing myself into it, starting off with the less spooky ones.

I don't see myself acting for the rest of my life.

To have that normality to come back to, to totally relax and not have to deal with a lot of the pressure that's put on young actors makes it a lot easier.

The whole celebrity culture is super weird, but I'm part of it for some reason, and you kind of have to be as an actor to be successful.

I already had a lot of friends at school who didn't care about the whole acting thing, so there was no reason for me to not be in school.

When you really want a role and you really want a character, you become quite close to the script and the project, and it is sad when it doesn't go your way. But I've found there's always another one, which will be as good if not better. You can't let your failures bring you down when you're an actor, because then you can't get up.

My theory. Music can fix anything. Anything.

Don't do piracy. Piracy is a crime.

Doing something different, doing something original is always fun because there is a lot of creativity that comes with it.

Doing things that allow you to learn something are great and I love when you have an opportunity to discover a whole new part of the world.

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

Some advice to you guys, don't ever take keep your phone in your pocket whilst on a roller coaster.

I've pretty much always had the same haircut my entire life.

I like to keep my options very open and try not to focus on trying to get something. That's just how I'm playing it and it's worked so far.

I can clap really fast. I can beatbox. I can type the alphabet in under 2 seconds. That's probably the one I'm most proud of.

In terms of my relationships with a lot of the adult characters, when I was working with Harrison, it wasn't like a verbal agreement, but we both understood that because there was this constant tension between our characters, we couldn't say "Cut" and start acting normal. We had to keep an essence of that relationship in our characters off screen which is really important.

TV and film both attract me equally. In both, you do search for a role that would be enjoyable to do, that has a great storyline and then, secondly, you look at the cast and the crew - are they respectable? How I look at it is my character - has the character got enough substance? It can't just be a one faced character, which is there to fill a gap. He has to have a purpose, so if it ticks all of those boxes then generally it's a good choice.

I'd imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn't be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason.

I think it's always difficult no matter how similar your characters are to yourself to get into that mindset, because however much they are similar to you, they're not you.

Talking to people and hearing their stories, you learn a lot.

I don't like to look for anything in particular.

I don't really have any dream roles. It's just things, which come up.