Charlie Hunnam famous quotes

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Children #Thinking #Escaping

It always seemed to me like it was a significant thing to do with one's life to be an actor 'cause I love movies and I felt like, not to be grandiose about it, but there is something important about film with the function it provides to general society.
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Movie Love #Important #Actors

I'm happy being an actor, it's what I have always wanted to do. I'm just lucky I got to do it so early.
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Being Happy #Lucky #Actors

The landscape of cinema is not original. Not to say there aren't great movies being made, but it's much easier for studios to make movies that have built-in audiences. So it's all remakes, adaptations, a lot of remakes of adaptations.
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Cinema #Landscape #Adaptation

I always think it's better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in something that you don't have complete faith in.
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Thinking #Roles #Film

Right before I got Sons of Anarchy, I actually quit acting for 18 months and didnt read a single script, and I wrote a film. I felt like I needed to do something that I had control over, as an artist, and also just do something where I felt like I had some control over my life, as just a human, out in the world.
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Son #Artist #Acting

I was playing pretty boys and these angelic roles like Nicholas Nickleby and all that stuff. And I was like, 'What am I doing? This isn't who I am, as a man or an artist.' I had to overcome people's belief that I was too pretty to be a badass.
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Badass #Artist #Boys

In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Careers #Two #Feet

So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Careers #Interesting #Balance

I'm currently doing Undeclared an American TV show set in a college. It just got aired and got massive ratings so hopefully that'll screen in the UK soon
-- Charlie Hunnam

#College #Tv Shows #Tvs

It's generally more fun playing the villain
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Fun #Villain

Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Careers #Over You #Acting

I love hip hop music, I make hip hop music.
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Hip Hop #Hips #Hops

I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn't go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct.
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Home #Writing #School

They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Directors #Actors #Television

I realise few people get to live the life they always wanted, but I'm so neurotic, I don't really think about it. I'm too busy thinking, 'I hope I don't screw up my next scene.
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Live Life #Thinking #People

And I just want to work with good directors and good people.
-- Charlie Hunnam

#People #Directors #Good People

If I went to them all dressed up and flashed a nice smile for the cameras it would probably be easier for me to get work. But I just can't tolerate it.
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Smile #Nice #Cameras

I mean I’m 16 and 17 years wiser now. So if I could do it when I was 18 with a guy, I can certainly do it at 33 with a lady.
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Mean #Years #Guy

To fight monsters, we created monsters of our own.
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Fighting #Monsters

If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Mother #Father #Men

In a work capacity I'm only interested in acting and producing
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Acting #Capacity

Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Roles #Ems #Lines

A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage.
-- Charlie Hunnam

#People #Levels #Damage

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Host #Photograph #Paint

I find aspects of the industry tedious and hard to manage.
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Aspect #Manage

I get invited to literally every single movie premiere that's going on.
-- Charlie Hunnam

The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there.
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Real #Matter #Talent

There are definitely worse people to be compared with. I think Brad Pitt makes interesting decisions.
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Thinking #People #Interesting

It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Suicide #Running #Thinking

I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Couple #Reading #Years

I watch these actors who when you go to buy a pint of milk you see them smiling on the cover of 20 magazines. Then when you see them in a film it's hard to believe the character because you just see them everywhere
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Believe #Character #Watches

I bought a house, and I've been decorating it
-- Charlie Hunnam

#House #Decorating

Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Getting Back Up #Down And #Matter