Best 40 quotes of Jamie Campbell Bower on MyQuotes

As a director, you have a thousand things going on in your head, and of course, that's going to be difficult. That's going to mean that some things get overlooked. And so, for us as performers, being the selfish pricks that we are, we're sitting there being concerned about ourselves all the time and our character's through-line.

As a kid I was into horror. I loved horror. Horror was huge. I was always into horror. Goosebumps for me was massive growing up. Horror for me was always a big thing.

As an actor and as a performer, I'm very much aware of the fact that my job is to change both physically and emotionally and that was what hurt the most - the fact that people were judging me based on nothing.

Being able to do lead roles in pictures or onstage or whatever it is that you're doing in acting is obviously what you strive for because you want to better yourself as an actor and you want to better yourself as a person as well. But that does come with a lot of responsibility and a great deal of weight.

Being on a movie set is wonderful experience, but it's a bubble - it isn't real life.

For every person that likes you there is going to be a person that doesn't like you. It's the nature of humanity.

For me, it's interesting because I never thought of myself as an action man, but apparently I can do it, so that's good to know.

Growing up in England, I was constantly surrounded by the Arthurian legend.

I always had the idea that I wanted to perform. I love being the center of attention - and I always love talking about myself.

I don't mind if people are saying nasty things about me behind my back - I just don't want to know about them.

I don't do so well with people pretending to be happy. When I was 16, I went with my girlfriend at the time and her family to Disneyland and I was so grumpy the whole time.

I don't think I'd really be alive without it, in all honesty.

I don't want to be so analytical of my own life, because if I start to be analytical of my own life, maybe I'll choose not to believe anything that's going on. But, the fact of the matter is, I've experienced both sides of it now. Sides where you have a great time with people on set, and then you do just step away. And it's not malicious. It's just that people go back and live their lives and do whatever.

I feel responsible for certain fans, but I've never said I'm a role model.

If I could play any character from the book though it’d be Church. Who wouldn’t want to be a cat?!

I have an apartment back home in London. England will be home for me. It always has been and always will be. It's where my friends are.

I have the best friends in the world. I miss my friends, I miss my family but they always come out and visit me. I went to boarding school in the country so there's no real differentiation between family and friends. I went there from when I was 8 until I was 17 - it was insane.

I like being broken. It means I can have chocolate for breakfast.

I like old school horror movies like Exorcist. I always loved scaring myself and I don't know at all what that's about.

I live out of a bag. I just looked at what's going on for me, I'm not gonna be back in England for more than a week between now and March of next year, I think, which is crazy. By that time the lease is up on my apartment! I'm getting a kick out of being homeless.

I'm a dirty kid, I like to be outside, I like to run about, I like to get messy. So I spent a lot of time outside as a kid, skating and just being a disaster.

I'm an extrovert, I like to gesticulate and talk loud and stuff, and the theater is easy for me.

I'm hardly the sexiest man in the world. I'm a bit of a geek.

I'm working on my music a lot, like folk singing, guitar. It's sort of rocky, folky, alty, angsty. I'm putting a lot of energy into that.

I see myself as a mascot for the kids who get beat down and don't feel like they belong.

I suppose with any character that you play you always bring your personal experience to it. You always bring people that you know or that you've met and sort of - this is what I do, I mean, I don't know what anyone else does - but people that you know or that you've met that have affected you in certain ways, you bring into it.

I think I'm always drawn to a good story

I think I'm nervous to sign on to any job.

I think there are times in life where you're automatically drawn to somebody and it's weird - you freak out a bit.

It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment.

I want to do more movies. I feel like it's a totally different skill set than there is to theater. It's much more internal.

I was obsessed with girls when I was 13 years old; I wasn't really into books.

I write music. I'm in a band.

My essentials are skinny jeans, loose-fitting tees, big jumpers, and the leather jacket. Everything is black or blue - I don't own anything colorful.

Of course, on a job, you have a shared common interest in the fact that you're there making a movie or making a TV show, and that creates unification within a group. There has to be something more than just the work for that to continue on, for that friendship to continue on.

Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him.

People can hate on you for doing what it is that makes you happy, but ultimately it has to belong to you. It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks.

People don't get it; they think I'm rich. I'm not! I have no money.

The great thing about literature is that you're making up your own interpretation of the character anyway. Also, you're given basically a bible of who a character is and you're kind of shooting yourself in the foot if you're not reading it.

You know, Johnny Depp has always been a massive inspiration for me and he's somebody who has produced an incredible amount of work, and every single piece that he does is amazing.