Jamie Bell Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

I'm awkward around girls. — Jamie Bell

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

Surfing isn't really in my blood. It's hard to catch a big wave in Billingham. — Jamie Bell

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. — Jamie Bell

Inner demons? Got none of them. — Jamie Bell

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?" — Jamie Bell

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. — Jamie Bell

My characters are often without a significant parental figure. — Jamie Bell

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. — Jamie Bell

Wherever the good work is I'll go. — Jamie Bell

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. — Jamie Bell

I love the old Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly movies; they're so beautiful to look at. It's such a shame we don't make them anymore. Although, I don't know how you could make tap dancing current and topical. — Jamie Bell

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

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

Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn't really have any kind of superpower or rely on any kind of technology to help him out of things. — Jamie Bell

I have a problem with heights in general - and climbing! — Jamie Bell

I think everyone still thinks I'm 13. — Jamie Bell

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

I'm a hard-mouthed northeastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England. — Jamie Bell

Music is pretty therapeutic. — Jamie Bell

What's weird is that I work with these directors and then I start channeling them. I kind of turn into them a bit - which is cool when you're working with Clint Eastwood. — Jamie Bell

I never had a father figure so I never missed it. — Jamie Bell

I'm proud of my works. But there's not one thing that I can put my finger on and say, "That is my greatest achievement. That's my proudest moment." That's so tricky to me. — Jamie Bell

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

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

I had teen angst for a while, but I think every teenager has the angst. — Jamie Bell

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

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. — Jamie Bell

My favourite superhero is obviously Batman because he's the sexiest. But I can't imagine myself as Batman. — Jamie Bell

I never really sympathised with Peter Parker. — Jamie Bell

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. — Jamie Bell

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

I've just been blessed to work with these really great people. — Jamie Bell

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

I excelled in English while I was at school. — Jamie Bell

Dancing is like riding a bike. — Jamie Bell

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

I often find the smaller, independent films are much more rewarding than the bigger stuff, but you do the bigger stuff because it's a business, and you've got to show your face a bit, get yourself around. — Jamie Bell

I lost my mind at 15. I'd been shown a world where there were no boundaries, where everyone gave me all the power. And I was like, 'This is great!' Then that was gone. But I was like, 'Yeah, but I still want that.' I'd lost my humble, very quiet, introverted sensibilities which I think I definitely had as a kid. — Jamie Bell

Well, I am obsessive about my work. I throw myself in all the way. — Jamie Bell

Everyone is slowly catching on to this one - and I know everyone says this - but we need to make a little more effort with the environment. Everyone says they turn off their lights, but do they really? — Jamie Bell

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

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. — Jamie Bell

I sympathize with every kitchen porter. — Jamie Bell

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? — Jamie Bell

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. — Jamie Bell

I wanted to be a journalist for a long time. — Jamie Bell

I'm very good at meeting people, very outgoing. — Jamie Bell

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. — Jamie Bell

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. — Jamie Bell

Every interview I do, it's basically 'how did he do it,' and I owe it all to my representation, and my manager is basically like my mother, she's so picky. — Jamie Bell

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. — Jamie Bell

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. — Jamie Bell

You just have to surround yourself with people who are going to support and love you before trying to sell you as a product, or push you into something you don't want to do. — Jamie Bell

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

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. — Jamie Bell

Tap dancing is all about the feet; you put your head down and don't really engage with anything but the rhythm in your head. — Jamie Bell

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

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. — Jamie Bell

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. — Jamie Bell

It's hard to incorporate dance into movies I think. — Jamie Bell

I go into meetings with some film-makers and they literally have nothing to say, they're almost bored by their own material. I'd rather work with people who are very passionate and very animated about what they want to do. People who just want to tell stories. — Jamie Bell

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. — Jamie Bell

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

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?" — Jamie Bell

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

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

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

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

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. — Jamie Bell

We're kind of in a voyeuristic world. We have TV shows that are all about watching people do weird things in houses. People are obsessed with that. There's live coverage of it. — Jamie Bell

I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through. — Jamie Bell

I'm still pretty terrified of heights. — Jamie Bell