Top 100 Douglas Booth Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. 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.

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#3. 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.

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#4. 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.

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#5. I just think if you're going to do something, do it properly.

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#6. I like to cook Vietnamese pho or vegetarian curries. I need to cook more but I need somebody to cook with.

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#7. You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything.

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#8. 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.

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#9. 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?

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#10. Ultimately I'll probably end up going out with an actress again. But an architect would be cool. They need to do something creative. I'm attracted to talent. But it would maybe be healthier if it wasn't in the industry.

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#11. 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.

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#12. David Cameron was a good-looking chap in his day!

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#13. 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.

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#14. I think it's more important to seek the truth than to try and be perfect, to be honest.

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#15. I think I'm low-maintenance.

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#16. I've never been aware of the difference between so-called posh actors and working-class actors.

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#17. I've spent a lot of my teenage years working on sets. I've missed out on more than just playing rugby, but I think I've managed to keep my feet on the ground and keep my friends around me.

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

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#19. I saw 'The Fountain' because my friend came over one day and said, 'This is my favorite movie I've ever seen. Please watch this,' and I watched it, and that was amazing.

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#20. 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.

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#21. I turned down one of the big young adult franchises.

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#22. Every year I look at the 'GQ' Best-Dressed List and have thought what an honour it must be to be included. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw my own face in there.

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#23. I only want to work with interesting filmmakers.

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#24. Some people call me Dougie Fresh. I don't know why.

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#25. 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.

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#26. 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.

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#27. 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.

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

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#29. With our job, you often meet people through work. I've had two long-term relationships, from 14 to 18 and 19 to 21. One I met at school and the other I met on a job so who knows where I'll meet the next person.

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#30. 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.

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#31. 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.

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#32. 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.

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#33. My grandfather was a great chef.

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#34. 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.

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#35. The grittier, the dirtier, the worse I can look, the happier I am. It takes the pressure off.

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#36. 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.

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#37. I've always enjoyed being on a horse.

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#38. 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.

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#39. I believe if you're prepared to kill the animal, you're allowed to eat it.

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#40. 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.

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#41. The best thing I've ever done for a girl hopefully is make them happy. Isn't that the most romantic thing you can do?

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#42. I love to dance and dance all night long.

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#43. I'd love to work with Paul Thomas Anderson or Quentin Tarantino, but these are dreams I don't need to rush to achieve. I'll be ready to make those movies when I'm ready to make those movies and they're ready to make them with me, if they ever want to.

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#44. I'm pretty romantic.

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#45. Romeo and Juliet were stunning and beautiful, but a lot of the other characters surrounding them were caricatures.

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#46. I got to be about 13 and everyone started playing guitars and being in rock bands. There was no place for me with my trumpet and I wasn't cool anymore. Although now if I played the trumpet it would be the coolest thing in the world.

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#47. 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.

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#48. I don't necessarily want to hear about my talent or my greatness as an actor.

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#49. 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.

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#50. My friends joke I'm a 90-year-old stuck in a young man's body.

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#51. I saw 'Othello' at the National Theatre in London, and it was so stunning. I was so moved. It's beautiful.

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#52. Each character you play has its own set of characteristics, for want of a better word.

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#53. 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.

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#54. 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.

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#55. 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.

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

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#57. You may have a broken heart, but you may find someone else.

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#58. If my feet ever left the ground, my mother would soon put them back down.

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#59. I'm not a player; I'm just a lovely guy, and I can show a girl a good time.

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#60. I'm definitely interested in taking on roles where I don't look like myself. But I'm not saying I'm going to go out of my way to play a disabled person in order to win an Oscar.

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

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

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#63. 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.

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#64. 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.

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

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

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#67. 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.

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#68. I don't think I've reached perfection by any stretch of the imagination, but maybe someday I'll become a perfectionist.

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

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#70. I live alone so I always just eat out. When I'm in another relationship, then maybe we'll start cooking together.

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

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#72. 'Romeo & Juliet' is still relevant and real.

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#73. I love movies. That's still my favorite form of escape, and I usually end up going alone. I love to go and sit in the theater by myself, no distractions.

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#74. 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.

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#75. Obviously, you never shoot the scenes of a film in order or only very rarely.

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#76. We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press.

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

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#78. I live by myself, which I love. In this industry, you're so often surrounded by people and busy and talking to people. It's kind of lovely when you get home to just chill out.

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#79. 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.

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#80. I grew up in London, and that's where I spend most of my time. Unless I have a really good reason not to be, I'll always be in London.

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#81. I am huge water sports fan. I love to jet ski, speedboat, water ski. So I love to get away to somewhere sunny and just get on the water and have some fun with some friends.

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#82. I get bored quite easily, so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself.

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#83. The most romantic things are very small, kind gestures from people you love.

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#84. For me, if Shakespeare was around today, he'd be writing screenplays - a big Hollywood movie.

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#85. I think Hollywood is interesting. As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.

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#86. 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.

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#87. I dreamt of being an actor ever since I was young.

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

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#89. 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.

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#90. External beauty is a bizarre thing to me.

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#91. 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.

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

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#93. [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.

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#94. I try to find more interesting material with each project I do.

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

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#96. 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.

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#97. 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.

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#98. 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.

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#99. 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.

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#100. What annoys people is the idea that somebody has everything, and they're allowed to get away with anything. It's the sense of entitlement that gets up people's noses.

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