Aidan Turner Quotes

#1. I guess I see a part of myself in everyone I write about. I tend to write about kids who are obsessed with something, and even though I have never been good with machines the way Hugo is, I did love miniature things when I was a kid.

Brian Selznick

#2. I think every actor wants a certain amount of control. Maybe not control, as such, but just to be part of the process. But it's not necessary, I guess.

Aidan Turner

#3. On a beautiful clear Sunday morning, myself and James Nesbitt jumped out of a plane together at 18,000 feet.

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#4. I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness.

Marlee Matlin

#5. You know nothing until you realize that.

King Samuel Benson

#6. Sexual attraction is common, Mind rapport is a blessing, and a Soul connection is a gift from the Divine.-Serena Jade

Serena Jade

#7. Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.

Akio Morita

#8. When you're part of an ensemble and share the screen with so many people, you become close to them because you're hanging out all the time. Obviously you have your ups and downs, but that kind of brings you closer in many ways.

Aidan Turner

#9. Ah realise now thit death is usually a process, rather than an
event. People generally die by degrees, incrementally. They rot away slowly in homes and hoespitals,
or places like this.

Irvine Welsh

#10. To make a career as an Irish actor, generally it's the case that you move to London. When you make that move, you do tend to stand out.

Aidan Turner

#11. In 'The Hobbit,' there were British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand actors, and Peter Jackson was adamant that we would all sound like we were from Britain somewhere.

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#12. I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that.

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#13. When you walk onto a Peter Jackson set, you can see straightaway that money isn't an issue.

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#14. I'm not an extravagant person. You don't get a chance to spend money when you're working on a TV show.

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#15. I was really into films when I was younger, but I feel like a bit of a phony sometimes - I started acting because I didn't know what else to do. I filled in all these university application forms and honestly didn't want to do any of the courses.

Aidan Turner

#16. I don't speculate too much about the future. That's the thing about this job - it's so fickle. You take the jobs, you read the scripts and, if something interests you and you like the people who are working on it, you go for it.

Aidan Turner

#17. A good trick I learnt early on is not to immediately look at playback because once you know the shot, you can see when the camera is on you. It's best to stay 'in it' all the time, and just if it's on you, it's on you, and if it's not, it's not. It's the easiest way.

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#18. Every actor wants to change things up a bit. You don't want to be pigeonholed, and not just because of what the industry might think.

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#19. I didn't want to feel like I was mimicking or copying someone else's performance, whether it's subconscious or not.

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#20. We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante, Borromini, and Bernini. Architecture is a tradition, a long continuum. Whether we break with tradition or enhance it, we are still connected to that past. We evolve.

Richard Meier

#21. I want to spend the night alone in a haunted mansion. I wouldn't say I'm sceptical because that word implies the truth is out there when there is no truth out there.

Aidan Turner