Jack O'Connell Quotes

#1. I'm actually a hippy in real life. I had three dreadlocks on the back of my head once. They were spawning.

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#2. I quite like to sing, actually - just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it's a form of tranquility.

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#3. I worked on a farm for a little bit.

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#4. I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.

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#5. I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.

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#6. My first experience on a feature film was with Shane Meadows on 'This Is England.'

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#7. I find the education I got from living in Derby and being streetwise and knowing the people that I know, the lessons that I had to learn growing up, have set me in good stead for this kind of working life.

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#8. I'd be lying if I said I never think about my female fans in certain shots and certain scenes. Like, when I'm topless, I might think: 'This one is for the ladies.'

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#9. I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.

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#10. The way America appreciates cinema is different from anywhere in the world. It's celebrated and supported. I don't just mean by the individuals, but financially as well people are throwing money at certain projects.

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#11. I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.

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#12. Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.

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#13. I feel like I've grown up on screen quite a lot.

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#14. If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.

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#15. Reading scripts is actually quite a relaxing part of the job. Strangely relaxing. This is a whole different ball game.

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#16. I was a youngster looking up to dudes like Vicky McClure, Joe Dempsie and Michael Socha - in fact, he was a big influence on how I was able to detach drama from the all-singing, all-dancing stigma.

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#17. It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text.

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#18. Certain jobs [films] are for the business really, because they get an audience, they get a global audience. Certain jobs are as an artist. If I can keep moving forward and strike some form of balance between them two, then I'm going to feel content.

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#19. I need to mature a bit - then I might have something to show for it.

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