Top 86 Quotes & Sayings by Taron Egerton

There are some parts of my life that are wonderful, and it's amazing to get to go to cool events and award shows and things like that, but I think the outside perception is that your life just changes overnight and you wear Dolce and Gabanna suits and drive a Mercedes. But life's just not like that.

I don't want to look back at my career and see a string of incredibly commercial projects that don't have much heart. I'm looking for things that have soul.

Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.

I can say I'm not doing 'X-Men.' I love the franchise, and I love the people who make them on and off screen.

I only act in films where I've got an A-lister as my mentor.

I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.

If something appeals, something appeals. I don't think I'm particularly calculated about it. I know I have an alarm bell that goes off in my head where something feels like it has no creative integrity to it at all, and it's just about making money.

All my friends are Welsh, I speak Welsh, and I feel very Welsh.

I'm not interested in being Franchise Boy.

I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.

I'm very conscious of... I don't feel like a star.

I feel like I've made good friends with people I've worked with, but in terms of lasting inspiration, it is probably Matthew Vaughn who directed 'Kingsman' who's been really supportive, loyal to me, and been a really good person to work with.

In school, I always sang in choirs. In fact, I used to do a lot of musicals in the youth theatre that I was a member of between the ages of 16 and 18.

In drama school, I entered a singing competition, which I ended up winning, which was great.

That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.

I think a British icon is someone who conducts themself with real dignity: someone who is truly talented and modest. These are things that I would aspire to in my career.

Doing the press has become as much of a job as getting in front of the camera. You have to avoid burnout, avoid saying anything stupid, but still come across as yourself.

I had dreams of winning Olivier Awards.

I completely get the drag thing.

I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.

I'm not interested in going and doing a big, action-adventure romp with nothing to say about being a human being.

I love funk and soul and Motown.

You go to drama school, and the people you revere and admire are those who work on the London stage, and you hope that's a world that you'll be able to break into and do enough occasional television and small film work to eventually get to the point where you're paying the bills.

I learned how to ski for 'Eddie the Eagle.' I never skied before. So I had to go out to Germany a couple of weeks early and make sure I could ski.

If I could play any superhero... my favorite superhero is Spider-Man. Andrew Garfield is wonderful at doing it to the point that I don't think I should play it.

I've met some incredible people who I really admire.

I didn't go to drama school to be a musical theatre performer. I enjoyed it, but I didn't go to do that; I went to be an actor.

This is going to sound a bit weird because she's a lot older than I am, but I've got a thing for Meryl Streep.

I've never considered myself to be a fashionista type of guy.

I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.

I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.

I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.

I don't want to start getting my little violin out, but travelling across the world constantly and staying in hotels is tough, man.

I can afford to get Tesco's finest sandwiches rather than the basic ones.

I want to surprise people and do different things and maybe do something that's not quite financially rewarding.

People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.

I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.

I applied to drama school when I was about 18 and didn't have any luck anywhere. They basically turned me away and said I had a bit of growing up to do. I went back to Aberystwyth and did my growing up by spending eight months working in Peacocks.

For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for naturalism.

I think the idea of participation trophies has gotta be a really, really great thing. Kids are under enough pressure as it is without encouraging them to be the best too early.

I'd love to do something at Marvel, but I don't think I would do a seven-movie deal. That's a bit too much for me.

For an actor to have the chance to go and play something that's far away from yourself, physically and also in terms of personality, character, is so much fun.

Franchises mean that you're tied in. That's a lovely feeling of comfort to the whole thing. From a business perspective, it really keeps you current and lets you go and do other smaller, more pedestrian things.

I grew up with Bond.

The endless teen franchises that come out of Hollywood... more often than not, the central character doesn't have any discernible character traits. They're just the young, good-looking guy who goes on this journey. They're always played by fantastic young actors, but ultimately, they're not very interesting characters.

I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.

I don't think I'm going to become Brad Pitt overnight, but I presume if walk down Oxford Street, there is a chance someone might clock me.

Part of me looks forward to a time when I have a family and a partner and I take less of my nourishment from social occasions. Having a little unit around me will make my working life easier, because it is quite lonely otherwise.

If you watch a television show made by accomplished professionals of children's TV, it's all very expressive.

If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.

I'd like to do a play, and I'd like to do a musical.

I have been in auditions where - because - you're always scared before, but if you let that scared feeling get the better of you or become too much, it could ruin your audition.

I want to have fun. I'm not interested in being a serious actor, because I think it's boring, and I think we've got plenty of them.

I've got Colin Firth's number in my phone!

I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.

I think being busy is a healthy thing.

I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids' films.

I did a musical when I was 17, an amateur show, and I loved it.

I have absolutely no interest in playing the young male lead around which a story happens.

I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.