Jamie Campbell Bower Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 nervous when taking part in any movie.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

If I could play any character from the book though it’d be Church. Who wouldn’t want to be a cat?!

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

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

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

I write music. I'm in a band.

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.

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 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 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've been a musician longer than I've been an actor.

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

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

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

I'm a horrible romantic!

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

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.

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.

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