Ed Speleers Quotes

• I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.

  Ed Speleers

  Love, Sports, School

  Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. October 11, 2006.

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• I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.

  Ed Speleers

  Dark, Thinking, Fans

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• I don't think I'm ugly, but I never thought I was that special.

  Ed Speleers

  Thinking, Special, Ugly

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• I want to be 82 and doing movies with Paolo Sorrentino where people are like, "This is gold."

  Ed Speleers

  People, Gold, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like going to see live bands. Live bands can be quite heavy, but I think it's very relaxing at the same time because you feel so happy and chilled-out.

  Ed Speleers

  Thinking, Band, Heavy

  Interview with Suzanne Freeman, www.scholastic.com.

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• My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor and if fame follows suit, that's fine.

  Ed Speleers

  Jobs, Actors, Suits

  Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. October 11, 2006.

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• I'm not good at just sitting around waiting for the phone to ring, hoping that the perfect role is going to turn up.

  Ed Speleers

  Phones, Perfect, Waiting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• From a stupidly young age I was always involved in anything, whether it be a nativity play or little kids plays. Wherever it was, I was involved and I think it was because more than anything, I wanted to be the center of attention.

  Ed Speleers

  Kids, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I'm putting the character together I try to find music that I think fits the character.

  Ed Speleers

  Character, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Music was a big thing for me growing up and Scorsese and Tarantino both use music brilliantly in movies. They're probably two of the best at using music.

  Ed Speleers

  Growing Up, Two, Use

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A lot of the time when you're doing your own work, it's all in your own head, which can be frustrating if you're prepping for something, especially an audition where it's all in your brain and you go in and no one else has seen it and you don't really know how it fits.

  Ed Speleers

  Brain, Auditions, Fit

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What I like doing these days is spending more time with coaches because I think it's important to work on yourself.

  Ed Speleers

  Thinking, Important, These Days

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are a lot of great young actors coming out of England who have maybe not gone to drama school, but I wish I had.

  Ed Speleers

  Drama, School, Wish

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If I look at the people that I look up to, a lot of them don't come to the forefront until their early to mid-30s. I think the most exciting roles are definitely yet to come.

  Ed Speleers

  Thinking, People, Roles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's a lot of content out there that's for an older audience but what struck me was that people who like those grittier, slightly punchier shows could still watch this but with their children as well.

  Ed Speleers

  Children, People, Watches

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Comedy is not something that had necessarily jumped out as something I'd immediately go for.

  Ed Speleers

  Comedy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I want to go to the extremes and transformation is something I'm fascinated by. At the same time, you can transform but you can only really put what you've got inside you into somebody, so there's always going to be a degree of you inhabiting any role.

  Ed Speleers

  Degrees, Roles, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I really do consider myself quite fledgling in my acting career. I've only been doing it for 10 years and that's a short amount of time, really.

  Ed Speleers

  Years, Careers, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A challenge is always important; as an actor, as a human, it's good to face challenges and it's good to push your boundaries.

  Ed Speleers

  Challenges, Important, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I can get quite down on myself because if people don't like what you're doing, it's hard.

  Ed Speleers

  People, Hard, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've always loved [acting] and I've always wanted to [do it] from as far back as I can remember.

  Ed Speleers

  Acting, Remember, Wanted

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've got to give my brother a lot of credit because he's always introduced me to a lot of things and those films spiked an interest of, "Wow, this is an incredible world, how do you be a part of that?" That definitely helped me through my school years of doing theater.

  Ed Speleers

  Brother, School, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you can have a show that has quite strong morals and cover important themes but be able to put them out to a broad audience, that's an interesting thing.

  Ed Speleers

  Strong, Interesting, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I did listen to 1920s jazz or Al Johnson and a lot of early singers coming out of England. I would branch out a little bit to get a sense of the world that he might be coming into, in the '30s when jazz was changing.

  Ed Speleers

  World, Branches, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think I was shown Pulp Fiction and Goodfellas at seven or eight. That's really bad. I think I've turned out all right; it didn't harm me too much.

  Ed Speleers

  Thinking, Eight, Fiction

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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