Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English actor Sam Riley.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Samuel Peter W. Riley is an English actor and singer. He is best known for his performance in the 2007 biographical film Control about the life of Ian Curtis, as protagonist Sal Paradise in the 2012 adaptation of the Jack Kerouac novel On the Road, and as Diaval in the 2014 film Maleficent. Riley received renown for his portrayal of the Fitzwilliam Darcy in the 2016 film Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
My parents are relieved as much as anything that I'm getting some work.
I learned to stop looking on the Internet pretty early on.
I'd been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite happened.
To do a studio film, something with Disney. My father is thrilled.
I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt 'n' vinegar crisps.
I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
I've no interest in going on a road trip. If I want to go on holiday, I want to sit on a beach, swim, drink cocktails and read a book.
I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.
As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
I'm Angelina Jolie's sidekick in 'Maleficent'. It's cool.
'On the Road' is another one of those, a film in which the audience has a very clear idea of who they think your character is, so you know you are asking for it. But that's the challenge.
Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the way. And the more you can keep it like that, the better for your work and your state of mind.
We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.
As an actor, I still dont really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
I watch all the classic films that film people say that you ought to have seen, and I try to watch things in the cinema when they come out, just to keep my eye on the competition. I'm bored when I'm not working.
For me the costume is always a huge part of getting into character.
Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny, learn card tricks.