Top 73 Quotes & Sayings by Jonathan Bailey
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English actor Jonathan Bailey.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
My understanding of romance novels was that it was on the beach with a glass of rose.
My perspective was: yes, I've worked before in London, but, my God, I've never done a musical in the West End and I see myself as someone who's predominantly known for TV, so can I prove my worth?
You can't sign on for a romance novel adaptation and then get prudish.
I think there's just incredible amounts of labeling generally and as woman, as a man, as a gay man, as a mother, as a father, there's just a sense that there's opinions everywhere.
We should be proud in Britain that there's a massive crossover between theatre and TV.
No, I'm alright for adventure. I will up the Thames in one of those Jacuzzi dingys.
I got taken to see Oliver!' by my Nana when I was five and I remember the experience so viscerally. And I just said to her, 'This is what I want to do!'
It seemed really important that at least one character in Bridgerton' got burnt by love - you know, Anthony mishandled his relationship with Siena and became quite toxic.
Lena Dunham has a very compelling face.
Who wouldn't want to play a character whose bottom you get to know before the face?
That's a testament to Shondaland who cast everyone off self-tapes. That creative instinct that they work through and they encourage everyone to go on is really empowering.
It's funny, because even though Bridgerton' is obviously a period drama, Anthony's story is quite modern in the sense that he's reached a point where he genuinely believes that love will never happen for him.
Yes, I'm looking forward to gay actors playing gay parts, but for me it's so important that everyone at home can see a bit of themselves on screen, to allow them to feel heard and seen, and also allow them to have aspirations.
'Bridgerton' is actually delivering on changing the bar, and the standard, of representation.
I'd be quite good at yo-yos, differentiating between them. The X-Brain, the Viper, the Tornado: I was into them at school. They're due a resurgence.
I already knew, of course, about the juggernaut that is Shonda Rhimes and the cultural significance of her.
If there are people who don't have access to creating their own TV shows or telling the stories they want to tell, then absolutely, everyone has to make space for them. That's not just to do with gender or sexuality. It's to do with race, religion and everything else.
The thing that's so at the heart of Bridgerton' is intimacy and identity and sexuality - and so of course that's something we're going to have to make sure we continue with.
Getting away from where you live and going to London is like the romantic ideal of ambition.
I think the idea of signing on to a sort of very commercial show and a show that is as expansive as this, that potentially could run and run, was something that I'd been wary of before, but reading Bridgerton,' it was a no brainer.
You know, I've just discovered the Mandy Patinkin and Patti LuPone performance of Evita' at the Tonys. It's honestly one of the most extraordinary pieces of singing in the world.
People say, 'You've got to challenge yourself,' and I don't think there's anything better than going, 'I don't understand how this thing is possible.' Fear of the unknown is always the thing in life.
We've come quite far with the idea of equality between sexes, but there's still a lot of conversations that need to be had about men in power.
The day of my last A-levels, I took over from Andrew Garfield' in Beautiful Thing, and the thing that followed that was Side by Side' with Josie Walker.
We know there has been a history of needing to be closeted to succeed and be famous, especially in acting.
I think Chris Van Dusen has got this amazing ability to take Julia Quinn's extraordinary books and her amazing worlds that she delicately filled with excitement and sexiness. And he takes it to a whole other level.
In fact, I've always thought that there are actors who can talk very quickly and effectively. And I've never felt that I'm in that category!
Something about the genre of period drama feels so quintessentially British.
Let's unbutton the corsets and see what's really going on, I say.
We used to go to church and, musically, I remember that being a massive influence. It had a band so it was very upbeat and semi-happy-clappy. It made me who I am.
Nature is so important.
The structure of theatre is always: turn up, do the job, be present and be kind, and work hard.
Good actors can do anything, and there'll be amazing writers who are willing to write for everyone.
With Bridgerton,' you're following eight siblings, all with different wants and they'll meet people along the way, and they'll interact differently.
Theatres are like sacred places - you hear the stories of previous performances and people who have strived to find that sweet spot on stage and succeeded, and failed, in the same space before you.
I want to find stories that humanize homosexual experience and that's what Peter Gill does well.
The National is the leading theater in the U.K. because it's three big theater spaces in one big building. At any moment you're there, you just know that you're working with people that you're going to be seeing for hopefully the rest of your career.
If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd love to be a primary school teacher.
I'm watching The Singing Detective.' I'm rather taken by it.
I mean, I think all teachers are basically modern-day heroes.
There have been amazing performances by straight people playing gay and by gay people playing straight.
The thing with Sondheim is that people sometimes say he's the only thing that matters, and then you end up embalming him, when the fact is he just writes the best and most accessible music.
You can love a play and character and can be the right person to tell that story. But if you don't click with the other people in the play, it won't work.
As a man you just think, oh no, can I grow a beard, can I do this, and a mutton chop is a really niche aspiration, but yeah, I got there.
One of my sisters was doing dance, and I'd watch from the back of the classroom in my trainers. Slowly, I started integrating myself into the fraught south Oxford ballet culture.
I feel like it's probably very out of character for Anthony to break into song. I feel like he might play the flute or something, like a really weird European cinema moment where it gets really odd and he serenades his love in music. You never know with Bridgerton.'
It's so important to see everything through every gaze and the female gaze in terms of sex is not something we have seen much of. Let's reassert that balance!
I worked with Nick Hurran when I was 15 and had to remind him of this. I did a drama for ITV which he directed.
You work and strive to be an actor and you can get better at it and enjoy it. But you can't be good at fame or enjoy it. Some people do, some people don't.
I've weirdly always got to show my bottom. For some reason my bum always comes out and it's not always written in the script.
As a family, we were far too busy making mud pies and going to swimming galas, and mum was always working.
Well, I feel like the campy, plush spectacle of the Bridgerton' world is only going to get more pronounced in the best way possible.
There's an element of control that comes with acting which you've just got to be really mindful of.
I remember seeing Oliver!' when I was six and having vertigo in the theatre - I experience that even when I go to theatres now.
I'd like to have been a pilot.
And I love a bath. I've had weeks where I've had a minimum of two a day.
When you have a great intimacy coordinator on set - which Bridgerton' does - you eliminate all of the stress.
My dad worked in a honey factory - we used to call him the honey monster' - and I worked there.
I'd say I'm not openly gay. I'm just gay.
I can't believe that The Hour' has been axed.
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