Top 62 Quotes & Sayings by Jamie Campbell Bower

I'm a dirty kid: I like to be outside, I like to run about, I like to get messy. So I spent a lot of time outside as a kid, skating and just being a disaster. I was obsessed with Dogtown - I still am obsessed with Dogtown, the Z-Boys. I love Stacy Peralta and Jay Adams and Andrew Reynolds, all these guys. I used to think I was Chad Muska.

I wanted to be a part of the first 'Twilight' movie, and unfortunately, it didn't work out so great. So when they came back and were like, 'Do you want to come in for a part for the second movie,' I was like, 'Absolutely.'

'Hamlet' is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I'd like to be involved in.

I'm nervous when taking part in any movie.

I'm hardly the sexiest man in the world. I'm a bit of a geek.

I went to boarding school in the country, so there's no real differentiation between family and friends. I went there from when I was 8 until I was 17 - it was insane. If you earn my friendship, you are my family, and I'll do anything for you.

People don't get it; they think I'm rich. I'm not! I have no money.

I think I'm always drawn to a good story.

England will be home for me. It always has been and always will be.

I was obsessed with girls when I was 13 years old; I wasn't really into books.

I suppose with any character that you play you always bring your personal experience to it. You always bring people that you know or that you've met and sort of - this is what I do, I mean, I don't know what anyone else does - but people that you know or that you've met that have affected you in certain ways, you bring into it.

I've been on sets where I broke my ankle on a television show doing a stunt playing Arthur in 'Camelot.' That was because it was really rushed, and it hadn't been thought through properly.

I think I'm nervous to sign on to any job.

I always had the idea that I wanted to perform. I love being the center of attention - and I always love talking about myself.

Being able to do lead roles in pictures or onstage or whatever it is that you're doing in acting is obviously what you strive for because you want to better yourself as an actor and you want to better yourself as a person as well. But that does come with a lot of responsibility and a great deal of weight.

For me, it's interesting because I never thought of myself as an action man, but apparently I can do it, so that's good to know.

I feel responsible for certain fans, but I've never said I'm a role model.

I think that there should be this thing for cover-ups on tattoos. I want to develop it. It's like a skin-toned transfer, and then all the make-up artist has to do is airbrush over it to blend it into the skin. There's nothing like that. At the moment, you literally have to go red and get it to skin color, which takes forever.

I'd love to be a part of 'Star Wars.' I'd be a Sith, of course - I'm English! We've got the voice, and it's perfect for the bad guys.

I'm a horrible romantic!

I don't mind if people are saying nasty things about me behind my back - I just don't want to know about them.

I'm an extrovert, I like to gesticulate and talk loud and stuff, and the theater is easy for me.

Being on a movie set is wonderful experience, but it's a bubble - it isn't real life.

I see myself as a mascot for the kids who get beat down and don't feel like they belong.

My essentials are skinny jeans, loose-fitting tees, big jumpers, and the leather jacket. Everything is black or blue - I don't own anything colorful.

People can hate on you for doing what it is that makes you happy, but ultimately, it has to belong to you. It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment.

I want to do more movies. I feel like it's a totally different skill set than there is to theater. It's much more internal.

I write music. I'm in a band.

When I was 16, I used to hang out at the Nambucca pub in North London and see The Libertines play live.

Growing up in England, I was constantly surrounded by the Arthurian legend.

I tend to thrive on being misquoted. It's the only way I sound good.

There's nothing worse than finishing your last take on a movie and thinking, 'God! I finally nailed who this guy was!'

Euro Disney is not my vibe. I can't really deal with Disney, man. It's not my thing.

You know, Johnny Depp has always been a massive inspiration for me and he's somebody who has produced an incredible amount of work, and every single piece that he does is amazing.

I do love mythology.

I'm working on my music a lot, like folk singing, guitar. It's sort of rocky, folky, alty, angsty. I'm putting a lot of energy into that. I write pretty much all the time.

Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him.

As a kid I was into horror. I loved horror. Horror was huge. I was always into horror. Goosebumps for me was massive growing up. Horror for me was always a big thing.

I'm too into skateboarding to be devastated by anything.

I like old school horror movies like Exorcist. I always loved scaring myself and I don't know at all what that's about.

It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment.

For every person that likes you there is going to be a person that doesn't like you. It's the nature of humanity.

Of course, on a job, you have a shared common interest in the fact that you're there making a movie or making a TV show, and that creates unification within a group. There has to be something more than just the work for that to continue on, for that friendship to continue on.

I don't think I'd really be alive without it, in all honesty.

I have the best friends in the world. I miss my friends, I miss my family but they always come out and visit me. I went to boarding school in the country so there's no real differentiation between family and friends. I went there from when I was 8 until I was 17 - it was insane.

I don't do so well with people pretending to be happy. When I was 16, I went with my girlfriend at the time and her family to Disneyland and I was so grumpy the whole time.

The great thing about literature is that you're making up your own interpretation of the character anyway. Also, you're given basically a bible of who a character is and you're kind of shooting yourself in the foot if you're not reading it.

As a director, you have a thousand things going on in your head, and of course, that's going to be difficult. That's going to mean that some things get overlooked. And so, for us as performers, being the selfish pricks that we are, we're sitting there being concerned about ourselves all the time and our character's through-line.

I think I'm always drawn to a good story

I live out of a bag. I just looked at what's going on for me, I'm not gonna be back in England for more than a week between now and March of next year, I think, which is crazy. By that time the lease is up on my apartment! I'm getting a kick out of being homeless.

As an actor and as a performer, I'm very much aware of the fact that my job is to change both physically and emotionally and that was what hurt the most - the fact that people were judging me based on nothing.

I have an apartment back home in London. England will be home for me. It always has been and always will be. It's where my friends are.

I'm working on my music a lot, like folk singing, guitar. It's sort of rocky, folky, alty, angsty. I'm putting a lot of energy into that.

If you earn my friendship, you are my family and I'll do anything for you.

People can hate on you for doing what it is that makes you happy, but ultimately it has to belong to you. It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks.

I think there are times in life where you're automatically drawn to somebody and it's weird - you freak out a bit.

I like being broken. It means I can have chocolate for breakfast.

There's nothing worse than finishing your last take on a movie and thinking, 'God! I finally nailed who this guy was!

I don't want to be so analytical of my own life, because if I start to be analytical of my own life, maybe I'll choose not to believe anything that's going on. But, the fact of the matter is, I've experienced both sides of it now. Sides where you have a great time with people on set, and then you do just step away. And it's not malicious. It's just that people go back and live their lives and do whatever.

I'm a dirty kid, I like to be outside, I like to run about, I like to get messy. So I spent a lot of time outside as a kid, skating and just being a disaster.