Top 100 Douglas Booth Quotes
#1. 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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#2. I looked on IMDB, at the message boards there, and someone had posted something about a sheep having more talent than me.
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#3. You may have a broken heart, but you may find someone else.
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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. On a Friday night, I like to go out because my friends, who have been working normal hours, just want to let go after a stressful week at work.
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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. The 'boy next door' parts I get offered, I don't find interesting.
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#10. Each character you play has its own set of characteristics, for want of a better word.
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#11. 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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#12. My friends joke I'm a 90-year-old stuck in a young man's body.
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#13. I'd imagine a great date would be to go skiing. Imagine going skiing. Go ski with someone, if they can ski.
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#14. If my feet ever left the ground, my mother would soon put them back down.
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#15. I don't necessarily want to hear about my talent or my greatness as an actor.
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#16. I love to go see films, even on my own. I just walk to the nearest cinema. There's nothing better than watching a movie alone; you can just sit there and zone in.
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#17. 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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#19. 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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#20. Romeo and Juliet were stunning and beautiful, but a lot of the other characters surrounding them were caricatures.
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#21. Dreams don't come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams choke to death on bay leaves. Dreams get spleen cancer.
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#23. 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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#25. Sexuality is such a small part of the make-up of someone; it's not who they are.
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#26. 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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#27. Yeah, 'Requiem for a Dream' - it'll put you off a lot of things, that film, that's for sure.
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#28. 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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#29. The British actors I've met and worked with have all been very supportive of each other.
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#30. Sometimes things are nothing on paper, but a genius director turns it into something amazing.
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#31. Obviously, you never shoot the scenes of a film in order or only very rarely.
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#32. 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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#33. 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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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. If a rock band throws a TV set out of a hotel window, it's seen as anti-Establishment.
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#38. 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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#39. The movie is so fun. I've done period pieces before but nothing with this twist. And the movie is just full of such wonderful people, such young actors - people like Matt Smith that I've been friends with for a while.
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#40. For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.'
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#41. 'Noah,' for me, wasn't a decision about taking on the Bible. It was about working with Darren Aronofsky.
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#42. 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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#43. 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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#44. 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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#45. 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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#46. I love history, and Churchill is one of my favorite people to study. He's a fascinating, fascinating man.
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#47. 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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#48. Articles always end up being about my appearance. I had a conversation with Jude Law: he told me people's obsession with looks goes away after a while.
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#49. I'm not a player; I'm just a lovely guy, and I can show a girl a good time.
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#50. I think we can't feed the amount of people that are on this planet the way we are doing it.
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#51. 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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#52. 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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#53. 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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#54. '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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#55. 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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#56. I've never been aware of the difference between so-called posh actors and working-class actors.
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#58. I think it's more important to seek the truth than to try and be perfect, to be honest.
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#59. 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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#60. One of the biggest things I used to struggle with was about things like going on holiday. Whereas all your friends can talk about something and plan something all year long, I know that I'm probably going to be away and I'm going to miss all of it. If a job comes up, you just can't be there.
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#61. I love the challenge of playing characters forced on life-changing emotional journeys. To work on a project with Billy Crudup and Sam Rockwell is just a dream come true.
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#62. I have always wanted to work with Judy Dench, and that hasn't happened yet, so that would be fun.
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#63. David Cameron was a good-looking chap in his day!
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#64. I turned down one of the big young adult franchises.
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#65. 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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#66. 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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#67. 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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#68. When I meet girls, I pray that they don't know who I am. But I know that's limiting myself quite a lot.
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#69. 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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#70. I've met some of the most beautiful women in the world, and I can tell you lots of them are the most unattractive people I've ever met.
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#71. 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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#72. I just think if you're going to do something, do it properly.
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#73. 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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#74. 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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#75. 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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#76. I'm literally into any type of music imaginable.
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#77. 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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#78. 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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#79. I believe if you're prepared to kill the animal, you're allowed to eat it.
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#80. 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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#82. 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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#83. The grittier, the dirtier, the worse I can look, the happier I am. It takes the pressure off.
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#84. 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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#85. I suppose 'Worried About the Boy' was a brave choice, but only in the sense that if I didn't get it right, my career would be over before it had begun.
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#87. 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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#88. 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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#89. 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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#90. 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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#91. 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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#92. 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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#93. I would hope I was raised polite and charming.
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#94. 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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#95. 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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#96. 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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#97. Some people call me Dougie Fresh. I don't know why.
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#98. Who doesn't want to fly around in a spaceship?
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#99. I only want to work with interesting filmmakers.
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#100. 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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