Top 36 Jim Sturgess Quotes
#1. When you're acting, everything is there around you, you just have to believe that it's real. When you're standing there with a slightly grey wig on and you have a baby in your arms screaming in your ear, you can go: "Well, I guess this is what it's like!"
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#2. When I was younger, I looked to actors like they were from another planet. You couldn't believe you could be anywhere near that world. It was exciting. I kind of like that.
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#3. The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.
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#4. You finish a project and start looking for something that might interest you. A lot of the films I've made are a reaction to something I've done right before.
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#5. I can play the guitar and the keys and the drums. I'm not brilliant at any of them. I can sing too. Some of my friends are proper musicians but I'm a song-writer. I write songs.
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#6. Come on, you can't do a film about an upside-down world and not have an upside-down kiss!
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#7. I really don't like the idea of people knowing what I am doing. I find telling everybody what you had for breakfast is really uninspiring.
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#8. Out of every 10 scripts I get sent, seven are fairly generic about an American guy who gets the girl and is involved in underground espionage activity.
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#9. I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person.
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#10. I didn't want the words 'Spider-Man' attached to my name in any shape or form. Especially a singing one.
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#11. Definitely River Phoenix is somebody that I thought, 'This guy is very cool.' I wanted to be like him when I was a kid.
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#12. There are times when I feel incredibly loved and connected, and times when I feel alone. I think that's natural for all of us.
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#13. You could pick another two people and you'd have a whole other story and that's why films about love get made and made and made - because there's a million ways to tell it and no two stories are the same.
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#14. Home is here in London and always has been.
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#15. You just try and do as much variation and as much difference and as much as possible, so you put yourself out there to try anything, really. As long as you feel you're going to get something out of the experience, it's all worth it.
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#16. I'm drawn to cinema, especially when you're on a project that feels like it's going to be a challenge.
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#17. 'Upside Down' is a fantasy love story. It's about love at first sight - when you just fall in love instantly and will battle any obstacle to be with that girl.
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#18. I was quite naughty at school. I was always in the back of the class messing about with the Bunsen burner rather than paying attention.
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#19. After 'The Way Back,' which was so epic and so rich, it was like, 'What will I do now?'
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#20. It's always interesting to me to tell stories that come from difficult political climates.
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#21. I could see when I was filming '21' that it was going to go a direction I wasn't comfortable with it going.
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#22. As you wake up to sort of Morocco coming to life, and you drive a two hour journey through the desert as the sun is rising over the sand dunes ... I saw landscapes and visual stuff that I'll never forget. It was special.
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#23. To spend time with Ed Harris ... he's an acting hero of mine, so that's a big deal for me.
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#24. Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.
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#26. You find most of the interesting stories are the ones that are slightly harder to get made.
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#27. Sometimes you read a script, and you just think, 'Wow, I would love to go and tell that story, and I don't even care what happens to the film, I would just love that experience.' And often, that mentality makes a great film.
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#28. In the world of independent filmmaking, you're never quite sure what's happening when and where.
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#29. It kind of sounds pretentious, but a film I find deeply romantic is 'Buffalo '66,' which is a film by Vincent Gallo. It's about how you break down all those barriers and expose yourself and open yourself up to ultimately being hurt.
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#30. I'd always been quite wary of doing a romantic comedy. They all seem the same to me.
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#31. I was quite badly behaved at school - I remember cutting class - and acting was a way of channelling energy.
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#32. When you meet somebody and you have an instant connection - why is that? Maybe you've met before? Maybe you've met in another life? Anything's possible.
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#33. Most of my friends are from the music scene.
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#34. Certainly after '21' I was getting the opportunity to make a lot of money.
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#35. I moved to Manchester to join a band and ended up getting into acting, and I moved back to London to become an actor and ended up joining a band.
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#36. I've probably written about three albums that no one will ever hear.
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