Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Finn Wolfhard

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian actor Finn Wolfhard.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Finn Wolfhard

Finn Wolfhard is a Canadian actor and musician. He gained recognition for playing Mike Wheeler in the Netflix series Stranger Things (2016–present). His film roles include Richie Tozier in the film adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel It (2017) and its sequel It: Chapter Two (2019), Boris Pavlikovsky in the drama film The Goldfinch (2019), the voice of Pugsley Addams in The Addams Family (2019), and Trevor in the supernatural film Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021). Wolfhard made his directorial debut with the comedy short film Night Shifts (2020).

There's so many influential albums my parents would put on. Like the first album I ever heard was 'Help!' by the Beatles and from there I just loved rock music.
Doing a scene by yourself is scarier - you know you don't have other people to fall back on.
The Duffers like that; they like watching their characters grow. — © Finn Wolfhard
The Duffers like that; they like watching their characters grow.
I never knew anyone who have growing up who had a clown at their birthday party. They are something I think of as being from the past. So I never had strong feelings about them. I do think that they can be creepy, I guess it depends on the clown.
It was cool when the Duffers assigned a list of movies to watch.
I don't want to get typecast and I've been doing a lot of stuff to make that happen and not be the case.
I love Nirvana, Joy Division, and New Order - older alternative, I guess.
Messing up lines is always embarrassing for me.
It's going to sound cheesy, but if I have family and friends I don't really care where I am.
I probably saw 'Jaws' when I was 10.
My parents are great. On every job, my whole family and I try to get as many breaks as I can.
I love retro culture. I love retro games; I love retro music.
I really used to like TVMaxwell, which is a classic, amazing, super-underrated comedy channel. And Cyndago was great.
It's really cool when the thing you are working on as a small team gets embraced by millions, but in the end, it's about your character and the script and your director and the rest of the cast and crew.
If I lounge around for too long, I get really bored. I have to be doing something. — © Finn Wolfhard
If I lounge around for too long, I get really bored. I have to be doing something.
I read 'Carrie' when I was younger and that's one of my favourite books.
It's my given, full name. Finn's not short for anything; it's just Finn Wolfhard. And then Wolfhard means, I think, heart of the wolf in German.
I love being Canadian.
I mainly use Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. Those are my three.
Sewer rats are really gross.
I'm always interested in horror and the supernatural.
It's intriguing to me, when I see a horror script, or something like that, that's actually original. I think that's why I love 'Stranger Things,' because it's not just horror, it's everything, and when they use horror it's right.
For me, I need to listen to music in the morning, and after, it's kind of like a shower, you know what I mean? It's kind of getting rid of everything. I always play music after I act. It's not a conscious thing, like, 'Oh finally, I need to do this,' it's kind of a constant need.
I think if I'm with a friend group, I try to be as funny as possible, and I don't always succeed, obviously.
Life gets weird enough without having to worry about whether you are covered for this or have to have a deductible for that, so the less stress when you are in need, the better.
Most of the fans of Calpurnia are 'Stranger Things' fans, which is not a big deal at all. They're super loyal and incredible, and really do like the music. It's the people who aren't fans of the music and are just there because of 'Stranger Things' that really bother me.
I think I'm really bad at voice acting.
To see a hacker actually hacking is not the most interesting thing visually, and it's pretty boring as an actor: a hacker taps on her keyboard. There's really not much more than that.
I don't want to be mean to people. I try to be as nice as possible to everyone.
I usually just watch YouTube videos or reruns on Netflix of older TV shows like 'Family Guy' and stuff. But I still really want to start watching more TV.
My favorite thing is to have collectives. Even when it comes to filmmaking as well, filmmaking and music and most art in general, I feel like everyone should have the same say. If you're in a collective, I feel like everyone should have the same say.
I don't take the Internet and social media very seriously. I've grown up around social media but to me what happens on the Internet just doesn't feel real.
Okay, I like the Clash. I like Tears for Fears. I like A-ha.
Jonah Hill is super cool.
I'm definitely not eager to grow up, but I do like some adult stuff.
Pup, who's like the most amazing, they're keeping rock 'n' roll and punk alive.
I'd actually love to do more comedy, but what I really wanna do is an indie drama - an intense indie road-trip movie.
During 'Stranger Things 3,' I shot 'It: Chapter Two,' so I would shoot on my days off, which was super tiring and stressful, but really rewarding at the same time. Basically, I shot 'It: Chapter Two' and 'Stranger Things 3' at the same time.
Honestly, if acting never worked out, I would have done music. — © Finn Wolfhard
Honestly, if acting never worked out, I would have done music.
I wanted to be a director and comedian and my plan was to go to NYU. I wanted to be in UCB.
I'd seen all of John Hughes's movies. All the Spielberg stuff. A bunch of '80s horror, like 'Evil Dead.'
I watch a lot of YouTube videos. I like game play channels like the Game Grumps. But I mostly watch sketch comedy.
If you don't realize that there are great rock bands out there, you should look for them.
I'm good at reading people. If I wasn't an actor, I would be a psychologist.
People deal with death differently; some even laugh at funerals.
I do ride my bike a lot.
I definitely do have a persona onstage. I definitely am a completely different person, but I'm still having a lot of fun and there's a lot of acting that goes into it. But I haven't been playing many shows when I'm working on acting as much because it's tiring, number one. And number two, it's hard for your mind to makeup what it wants to do.
My parents were in high school and college in the '80s, so let's just say I've heard some stuff, man. We listen to a lot of music and watch lots of great films, but the real context they provide from that era is about politics.
I never liked horror up until I was like 10 years old.
When I was younger, I acted in some Shakespeare stuff; I did one Shakespeare camp. — © Finn Wolfhard
When I was younger, I acted in some Shakespeare stuff; I did one Shakespeare camp.
I'd love to make a horror movie, that's definitely where I want to be one day.
Jason Reitman is an amazing director; he's really amazing with his actors and crew.
Well, I kind of did the math in my head when I was like, 9. I was like, 'Well, if I want to make films' - because I want to be a director - 'I could just go on a film set and learn there.' And then I ended up falling in love with acting and the set and making friends all the time. And so I've just been doing that ever since.
Everyone wants to be funny. Maybe not everyone, but to an extent.
If I hadn't done the PUP video, I probably wouldn't be playing music right now.
I mean if anyone's comfortable being famous, they're a psychopath.
I'd recommend anyone watch 'Harold and Maude,' 'cause it helps a lot with fear of death.
PUP introduced me to so much more amazing music. They really shaped my sound.
I guess with a Netflix show, if you're a kid, it's all dependent on how you're raised and if you have access to it.
Well, we shoot for so long on 'Stranger Things' that I know Atlanta really well.
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