Jamie Bell Quotes

I'm awkward around girls.

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.

It must be hard to be a female in a David Mackenzie movie. I feel like women in his films are portrayed a certain way - like broken people.

I'm a hard-mouthed north-eastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England.

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

When you have a child, you are just immediately changed forever. You put yourself second. Your child comes first, and everything that you do is with them in mind.

I'm no good at the one-liner thing. It's just not me.

I never really sympathised with Peter Parker.

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.

Any time you can completely immerse yourself in something it's fun.

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.

I'm still pretty terrified of heights.

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things.

I think as English people, we don't want to be reminded that at one point we ruled three-quarters of the globe, and now we're a very small country that doesn't own three-quarters of the globe.

I sympathize with every kitchen porter.

I actually don't mind rats at all. I kind of think they're quite cute, but that's just me.

I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.

I think movie making can sometimes make you lazy in your approach. Occasionally you'll be shooting a scene and it's not even your coverage but you'll catch yourself slipping away and you'll see your mind going somewhere else. But you just can't afford to do that on stage.

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.

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

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 think a mantra I always told myself is, "No matter how many times somebody pitches the ball at you, if you swing every time, eventually one of them is going to connect." Being yourself and persistence are two things that became my daily mantras, I suppose.

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.

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?

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

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.

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?"

Dancing is like riding a bike.

I love documentaries. It's actually my favorite medium of film.

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.

I've got lots of weird illustrations of me from Japanese fans.

I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own.

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

Wherever the good work is I'll go.

I'll tell you what I hate - bands like My Chemical Romance.

If you have created an image of yourself at 13 and it is still with you at 17, it needs to be dropped.

When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.

I don't think many people can say they've been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.

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

New York is full of crazy people, and I like that.

I'm just a small guy so if I'd dropped any more weight it would have been a bit ridiculous.

I think everyone still thinks I'm 13.

The reason I do small, independent movies is because I want to keep my soul intact and maintain some kind of integrity within this industry.

I never had a father figure so I never missed it.

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

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

It's hard to define somebody by one movie. I mean, unfortunately, my entire life was basically made by Billy Elliot. It was kind of created by that one catalytic moment.