Douglas Booth Quotes & Sayings

Even to this day, when someone says something derogatory about Boy George, it still upsets and offends me. Part of me will always be quite attached to him. — Douglas Booth

I get bored quite easily, so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself. — Douglas Booth

Some people call me Dougie Fresh. I don't know why. — Douglas Booth

Communication is important. — Douglas Booth

Some people can very easily switch off and be guilt free, not that what I'm doing is about guilt, but they can completely disconnect and not care because it doesn't affect them. I've always really cared about what happens and felt a certain responsibility. — Douglas Booth

The British actors I've met and worked with have all been very supportive of each other. — Douglas Booth

I dreamt of being an actor ever since I was young. — Douglas Booth

If my feet ever left the ground, my mother would soon put them back down. — Douglas Booth

I turned down one of the big young adult franchises. — Douglas Booth

The 'boy next door' parts I get offered, I don't find interesting. — Douglas Booth

I just think if you're going to do something, do it properly. — Douglas Booth

I think it's more important to seek the truth than to try and be perfect, to be honest. — Douglas Booth

If a rock band throws a TV set out of a hotel window, it's seen as anti-Establishment. — Douglas Booth

Obviously, you never shoot the scenes of a film in order or only very rarely. — Douglas Booth

You may have a broken heart, but you may find someone else. — Douglas Booth

More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong. — Douglas Booth

Dickens writes such brilliant characters and stories, and his themes and social commentary are still so relevant. I think that's why he's still so loved today. — Douglas Booth

'Noah,' for me, wasn't a decision about taking on the Bible. It was about working with Darren Aronofsky. — Douglas Booth

[London is] one of the best cities in the world. There is just so much culture there and so much history and so much diversity. It's just a perfect place to grow up. I studied at the Guildhall every Saturday so I'd always be in town every weekend doing that. I was kind of a city boy really. — Douglas Booth

It's better to think of life as a proper journey with a beginning and an end. Maybe, I can settle for being immortalised on screen. — Douglas Booth

It's important to read as much as you can because you never know when you will find the best script that you want to do next. I'm always quite picky in what I read and what I go for. — Douglas Booth

'Romeo & Juliet' is still relevant and real. — Douglas Booth

I like to travel, but honestly I really like to just be at home in London and spend time with my friends. — Douglas Booth

I've said I won't eat meat until the whole world can eat it responsibly, which is going to be hard. It's becoming more and more fashionable to eat more and more meat and they've just made it fashionable to eat meat in the east in China, which is a massive population. — Douglas Booth

When I do my own wardrobe, I try to wear a designer from each of the countries I'm visiting: Tom Ford for New York, Hugo Boss for Germany, Burberry for England. — Douglas Booth

I'm pretty romantic. — Douglas Booth

My friends joke I'm a 90-year-old stuck in a young man's body. — Douglas Booth

I'm just trying to choose interesting, quirky projects or things with interesting directors or just movies that have a lot of people I like attached to them so I know I'm going to have a good time. — Douglas Booth

I only want to work with interesting filmmakers. — Douglas Booth

I love art. My sister is an artist and my mother is a painter, so it is very much in the family. I haven't ever wanted to be a fine artist myself - my sister robbed me of my artistic talent, I think. — Douglas Booth

I loved 'Harry Potter' growing up. I'm dyslexic and a slow reader, but I could get through the thick ones in days! — Douglas Booth

External beauty is a bizarre thing to me. — Douglas Booth

Sexuality is such a small part of the make-up of someone; it's not who they are. — Douglas Booth

I got cast in a school play and I fell in love with that. I felt comfortable on stage and found out it was a brilliant way of expressing myself and I was happy and I could do it. — Douglas Booth

I love Leonardo DiCaprio. He just makes really great films with great directors. He has great relationships with directors but also has a great social awareness. I think he balances his work with his responsibilities to his world, the environment, things like that very well. I'm very impressed by him and I admire him a lot. And other actors like Joaquin Phoenix, I just look at him and marvel at his unexpectedness, just his work really. — Douglas Booth

I love to ride horses. I've ridden since I was a kid so I got to do some riding, which was a lot of fun. But most of the stunts were left to the girls. It's the girls rescuing the guys mostly. So it was kind of really kick-ass, girl power. It was wonderful to watch. It was particularly sexy. They would come in and just slay in these choreographed pentagram of death fight scenes. It was pretty impressive. — Douglas Booth

As a kid, I used to run around our garden waving a stick and pretending to be a million different people. That's why I became an actor, really. — Douglas Booth

What is life unless you're having a good time? I don't really have a plan; I just try to dip my toes in different ponds. — Douglas Booth

Darren Aronofsky is on another level. You get lost in a scene, and he'll come over and whisper something in your ear, and suddenly everything makes sense. — Douglas Booth

Yeah, 'Requiem for a Dream' - it'll put you off a lot of things, that film, that's for sure. — Douglas Booth

If you don't practice for three days, everyone will notice. It's something you have to really maintain. So unfortunately, I don't play it that often but I may take it up again. If you don't play for a while, you just can't hit the notes. It's like going to the gym. If you go and do weights, you can lift x amount of weight and if you don't go for ages, you've gotta start again and start from the beginning. So it's a bit like that. It's just a muscle. — Douglas Booth

I'm not a player; I'm just a lovely guy, and I can show a girl a good time. — Douglas Booth

I like to wake up late, around 11 A.M., especially if I have been out the night before. Then I go to brunch with either my friends or my girlfriend. I then like to just chill out: read the papers, read some scripts and then take it very easy. If it's sunny, I go for a walk with my dog, Niles, in the countryside. — Douglas Booth

I suppose to a certain degree. London's my favorite place on the planet and the reason for that is its fantastic diversity. — Douglas Booth

I'm quite severely dyslexic so I struggle with acting in certain ways. I always have to put in triple the amount of effort, which would always frustrate me a lot. I suppose that some people can just look at a script once and know it. That's not me. I really have to spend a bit of time with the lines. But it's my job and I've got better and better at it. If you're learning a lot, things start going quicker. Doing the lines with repetition and you just get it in your head somehow. — Douglas Booth

You can have an amazing director and terrible script, and the film's not going to be great. But if you have the most incredible script and an okay director, you could still get a really good film. — Douglas Booth

I remember someone saying to my mom that it must be so glamorous to have a child acting in movies. They had no idea how hard it was for her. — Douglas Booth

I can play the trumpet. Before I became an actor, I wanted to be the next Louis Armstrong. I started young and got to grade seven. When I turned 13, everyone started whipping out guitars, looking cool and joining rock bands, so I stopped playing. — Douglas Booth

I fell in love at 14 and I remember that mad, tense feeling and all the mad things you do for the person - all those extremes and all the stuff you don't mind putting up with. — Douglas Booth

I've met some of the most beautiful women in the world, and I can tell you lots of them are the most unattractive people I've ever met. — Douglas Booth

You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything. — Douglas Booth

On a Friday night, I like to go out because my friends, who have been working normal hours, just want to let go after a stressful week at work. — Douglas Booth

I don't feel like I've ever kissed any of the people I have done for acting. That moment didn't exist for you; it existed for that person. — Douglas Booth

I love to go see films, even on my own. I just walk to the nearest cinema. There's nothing better than watching a movie alone; you can just sit there and zone in. — Douglas Booth

I would be the last person on earth to complain about what I do - I feel very fortunate and I know there are a million jobs in the world that are much, much harder - but it's not always an easy or glamorous thing to do, that's for sure. — Douglas Booth

I tried to forget about playing Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet' and just think about him as a normal guy, as a normal character, and just try and approach him the same I would every other character. — Douglas Booth

It's really important to take time for yourself because if you don't know what it is like to be a real person and spend time with a sense of normality, how can you play normal people in films? — Douglas Booth

To be able to experience a thousand different lives within my lifetime is something that always appealed to me. I wasn't content with just being one person for the rest of my life. — Douglas Booth

I may not have seen my girlfriend for two or three months, but then we can spend two or three months together solidly. It's swings and roundabouts. — Douglas Booth

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.' — Douglas Booth

I live for challenges. In my career, all I want to do is try to challenge myself and have a varied career. — Douglas Booth

I have always wanted to work with Judy Dench, and that hasn't happened yet, so that would be fun. — Douglas Booth

I had friends who ran off to become ski instructors or worked in cool bars, and I often envied them, but I know I'd quickly become bored with that kind of life. I always need to push myself. — Douglas Booth

Sometimes a script comes along that really makes you sit up and pay attention ... 'Life at These Speeds' has an emotional intensity that really kicked me in the guts. — Douglas Booth

I love to dance and dance all night long. — Douglas Booth

I would hope I was raised polite and charming. — Douglas Booth

When I do go to L.A., it is usually for a reason - to meet with a director or something - but I'm always so happy to go back to London. — Douglas Booth

It's fun to play a dark character, but you go home at the end of the day not feeling very good about yourself. You go away feeling dirty. It seeps into the air. — Douglas Booth

I like to cook Vietnamese pho or vegetarian curries. I need to cook more but I need somebody to cook with. — Douglas Booth

I've always enjoyed being on a horse. — Douglas Booth

The grittier, the dirtier, the worse I can look, the happier I am. It takes the pressure off. — Douglas Booth

I don't necessarily want to hear about my talent or my greatness as an actor. — Douglas Booth

'GQ,' you've been patiently and stylishly educating me forever. To be truly stylish, you have to be kind and courteous. — Douglas Booth

One of the biggest things I used to struggle with was about things like going on holiday. Whereas all your friends can talk about something and plan something all year long, I know that I'm probably going to be away and I'm going to miss all of it. If a job comes up, you just can't be there. — Douglas Booth

I suppose 'Worried About the Boy' was a brave choice, but only in the sense that if I didn't get it right, my career would be over before it had begun. — Douglas Booth

I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I took up the trumpet and just did that every day and practiced that. — Douglas Booth

I was lucky enough to get a very good agent at the age of 15, and got my first film when I was 16, so it's been rolling on since then. — Douglas Booth

Sometimes things are nothing on paper, but a genius director turns it into something amazing. — Douglas Booth

The script's always important, but there are some things that have come out in the past year that, when we read them, everyone was like, "Oh my god, this is going to be the next best thing!" Then the movie falls completely flat on its face. — Douglas Booth

I love the challenge of playing characters forced on life-changing emotional journeys. To work on a project with Billy Crudup and Sam Rockwell is just a dream come true. — Douglas Booth

When I meet girls, I pray that they don't know who I am. But I know that's limiting myself quite a lot. — Douglas Booth

I've always had a social awareness. My favorite channel on TV is BBC News 24. For a while, I had to have it on repeat in my house. I've always been interested in what's going on in the world. — Douglas Booth

When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it; you sort of rebel against it in a certain way. — Douglas Booth

I think we can't feed the amount of people that are on this planet the way we are doing it. — Douglas Booth

David Cameron was a good-looking chap in his day! — Douglas Booth

Have you seen Cowspiracy? It takes a lot more land to feed a meat eater than to feed a vegan or a vegetarian. It's something I'd love to get into but it's very hard to persuade people to stop things they've been doing for a long time. So maybe it needs to start with the next generation. Everyone needs to raise their children with a bit more responsibility. — Douglas Booth

It's a bit of a cliche, but I think girls like to get flowers. I think books are quite romantic, too. If you can find an interesting book, that brings something out in your partner that can be very romantic. — Douglas Booth

I've never been aware of the difference between so-called posh actors and working-class actors. — Douglas Booth

I loved 'Gladiator' when I was young. Russell Crowe was a big inspiration; the fact that he plays my father in 'Noah' was amazing. — Douglas Booth

I love clothes and do sort of change my wardrobe a lot. But a thousand dollar jacket? I'd rather spend it on an experience, like traveling. — Douglas Booth

I try to find more interesting material with each project I do. — Douglas Booth

I love history, and Churchill is one of my favorite people to study. He's a fascinating, fascinating man. — Douglas Booth

I looked on IMDB, at the message boards there, and someone had posted something about a sheep having more talent than me. — Douglas Booth

My grandfather was a great chef. — Douglas Booth

I wanted to become an actor. I went to Guildhall School of Music and Drama, which is one of the main drama schools in London where you go when you are older. But I was doing the junior one when I was a kid. And some friends there had agents. I was fourteen and I was like, "I want an agent! It sounds awesome!" I had no idea what that was. I thought those guys looked like men in black. They were hanging around in suits all the time. So I luckily got a very good agent in London and started auditioning. And then when I was 16, I got my first film and I've been working ever since. — Douglas Booth

It's great to fall head over heels in love at a fast pace, and nothing's more romantic, but you need to look after yourself. — Douglas Booth

When I was younger, I looked a lot older than I was. They have these working laws in England where you have to be 16: if you're over 16, you don't have to be restrained by working hours and things like that. In America, it's actually 18. — Douglas Booth

Going over to Lesvos in Greece and meeting some of these poor refugees who have just made the treacherous sea crossing opened my eyes in a way I can't even being to describe. It's put a fire in my belly to really try to do something, the little I can do. — Douglas Booth

The first lead that I ever played was a young Boy George when I was seventeen. I shaved my eyebrows off. That's as far from leading man looks as you can get. — Douglas Booth

It's very important to hold on to what you want. In front of you is very easy fame and very easy money. — Douglas Booth