Top 80 Quotes & Sayings by Jamie Bell - Page 2

AMC is a fantastic network that does diverse programming, and does it at a really good level and of great quality.

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.

It's a difficult position. Do you endanger your child to fight for the right thing, or do you keep your mouth shut and let your child grow up in a world where their natural rights are stripped away from them?

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.

I think it was the sense that Turn is a spy thriller, and that's a genre that really fascinates me, in general.

New York is great for people watching and there's a bunch of amazing rooftops.

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?"

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.

As a kid I never had the impulse to climb anything. I think that most kids who live in small towns or rural areas outside of the city, that's what they do - climb walls, or trees, or whatever. To me, it was more dance classes and not being very boyish.

TV is a big business. In some ways, it's surpassed films, in terms of the way people invest in these shows and invest in these characters, and give up so much of their time to follow these people's stories.

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 a problem with heights in general - and climbing!

If the right thing came along at the right time, it would be an enormous kind of challenge.

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.

Your credit card, your inbox, your Hotmail.com are not particularly secure. We are being watched; it's just a part of life.

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.

Saying "muff" to someone and trying to be romantic is incredibly difficult.

It's weird how an actor can read a script and think 'it's really good, it's really funny, that's going to be really dramatic...' and then you get there and say: "Oh, I have to get in it? I have to get in the water?! Are you kidding?"

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.

Sometimes great things come from doing things quickly and not over-thinking stuff.