Top 80 Quotes & Sayings by Jamie Bell
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English actor Jamie Bell.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Everyone is slowly catching on to this one - and I know everyone says this - but we need to make a little more effort with the environment. Everyone says they turn off their lights, but do they really?
I never really sympathised with Peter Parker.
It's hard to incorporate dance into movies I think.
I'm a hard-mouthed northeastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England.
Inner demons? Got none of them.
I had teen angst for a while, but I think every teenager has the angst.
I excelled in English while I was at school.
Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn't really have any kind of superpower or rely on any kind of technology to help him out of things.
I lost my mind at 15. I'd been shown a world where there were no boundaries, where everyone gave me all the power. And I was like, 'This is great!' Then that was gone. But I was like, 'Yeah, but I still want that.' I'd lost my humble, very quiet, introverted sensibilities which I think I definitely had as a kid.
What's weird is that I work with these directors and then I start channeling them. I kind of turn into them a bit - which is cool when you're working with Clint Eastwood.
I think everyone still thinks I'm 13.
I go into meetings with some film-makers and they literally have nothing to say, they're almost bored by their own material. I'd rather work with people who are very passionate and very animated about what they want to do. People who just want to tell stories.
I tap dance.
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.
I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.
I'm no good at the one-liner thing. It's just not me.
Dancing is like riding a bike.
Tap dancing is all about the feet; you put your head down and don't really engage with anything but the rhythm in your head.
I love the old Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly movies; they're so beautiful to look at. It's such a shame we don't make them anymore. Although, I don't know how you could make tap dancing current and topical.
Music is pretty therapeutic.
Well, I am obsessive about my work. I throw myself in all the way.
I'm awkward around girls.
My favourite superhero is obviously Batman because he's the sexiest. But I can't imagine myself as Batman.
I don't think there's a lot of actors out there right now who really know what they're doing at all.
I never had a father figure so I never missed it.
New York is full of crazy people, and I like that.
You just have to surround yourself with people who are going to support and love you before trying to sell you as a product, or push you into something you don't want to do.
I'm very good at meeting people, very outgoing.
I sympathize with every kitchen porter.
I often find the smaller, independent films are much more rewarding than the bigger stuff, but you do the bigger stuff because it's a business, and you've got to show your face a bit, get yourself around.
I love documentaries. It's actually my favorite medium of film.
We're kind of in a voyeuristic world. We have TV shows that are all about watching people do weird things in houses. People are obsessed with that. There's live coverage of it.
Surfing isn't really in my blood. It's hard to catch a big wave in Billingham.
If you have created an image of yourself at 13 and it is still with you at 17, it needs to be dropped.
I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own.
I've got lots of weird illustrations of me from Japanese fans.
I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through.
I'll tell you what I hate - bands like My Chemical Romance.
I actually don't mind rats at all. I kind of think they're quite cute, but that's just me.
You don't miss what you never had.
I've just been blessed to work with these really great people.
My characters are often without a significant parental figure.
Every interview I do, it's basically 'how did he do it,' and I owe it all to my representation, and my manager is basically like my mother, she's so picky.
I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.
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 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 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.
I'm still pretty terrified of heights.
Any time you can completely immerse yourself in something it's fun.
I'm just a small guy so if I'd dropped any more weight it would have been a bit ridiculous.
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.
I'm a hard-mouthed north-eastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England.
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.
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.
Wherever the good work is I'll go.
I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.
When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.
I think a mantra I always told myself is, "No matter how many times somebody pitches the ball at you, if you swing every time, eventually one of them is going to connect." Being yourself and persistence are two things that became my daily mantras, I suppose.
I think movie making can sometimes make you lazy in your approach. Occasionally you'll be shooting a scene and it's not even your coverage but you'll catch yourself slipping away and you'll see your mind going somewhere else. But you just can't afford to do that on stage.
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.
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