Jamie Bell Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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 love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.

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.

It's weird how an actor can read a script and think 'it's really good, it's really funny, that's going to be really dramatic...' and then you get there and say: "Oh, I have to get in it? I have to get in the water?! Are you kidding?"

Wherever the good work is I'll go.

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

I'm awkward around girls.

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.

I don't think there's a lot of actors out there right now who really know what they're doing at all.

I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.

I have, I think, eight mentors. It's crazy, but I need them. They are all really important to me. They keep me grounded and advise me.

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?

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

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

I'm very good at meeting people, very outgoing.

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.

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

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

I never really sympathised with Peter Parker.

I'm still pretty terrified of heights.

I excelled in English while I was at school.