Douglas Booth Quotes

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.

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.'

If a rock band throws a TV set out of a hotel window, it's seen as anti-Establishment.

I think Hollywood is interesting. As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.

'Noah,' for me, wasn't a decision about taking on the Bible. It was about working with Darren Aronofsky.

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.

When I do my own wardrobe, I try to wear a designer from each of the countries I'm visiting: Tom Ford for New York, Hugo Boss for Germany, Burberry for England.

I loved 'Gladiator' when I was young. Russell Crowe was a big inspiration; the fact that he plays my father in 'Noah' was amazing.

Being blinded by young love. I remember the feeling, when I first fell in love - you don't see the world the same way that other people see it. You don't see the same boundaries.

I saw 'Othello' at the National Theatre in London, and it was so stunning. I was so moved. It's beautiful.

I've always had a social awareness. My favorite channel on TV is BBC News 24. For a while, I had to have it on repeat in my house. I've always been interested in what's going on in the world.

You may have a broken heart, but you may find someone else.

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.

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.

I took up drama and did so much extracurricular work, like the National Youth Theatre and Guildhall's Saturday school. Acting is where I felt most comfortable and how I wanted to express myself.

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.

I love to ride horses. I've ridden since I was a kid so I got to do some riding, which was a lot of fun. But most of the stunts were left to the girls. It's the girls rescuing the guys mostly. So it was kind of really kick-ass, girl power. It was wonderful to watch. It was particularly sexy. They would come in and just slay in these choreographed pentagram of death fight scenes. It was pretty impressive.

The grittier, the dirtier, the worse I can look, the happier I am. It takes the pressure off.

I think I'm low-maintenance.

If my feet ever left the ground, my mother would soon put them back down.

I'm just trying to choose interesting, quirky projects or things with interesting directors or just movies that have a lot of people I like attached to them so I know I'm going to have a good time.

I suppose to a certain degree. London's my favorite place on the planet and the reason for that is its fantastic diversity.

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.

I live for challenges. In my career, all I want to do is try to challenge myself and have a varied career.

I only want to work with interesting filmmakers.

I would hope I was raised polite and charming.

I live alone so I always just eat out. When I'm in another relationship, then maybe we'll start cooking together.

I love Leonardo DiCaprio. He just makes really great films with great directors. He has great relationships with directors but also has a great social awareness. I think he balances his work with his responsibilities to his world, the environment, things like that very well. I'm very impressed by him and I admire him a lot. And other actors like Joaquin Phoenix, I just look at him and marvel at his unexpectedness, just his work really.

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.

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.

I don't necessarily want to hear about my talent or my greatness as an actor.

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.

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.

I wanted to become an actor. I went to Guildhall School of Music and Drama, which is one of the main drama schools in London where you go when you are older. But I was doing the junior one when I was a kid. And some friends there had agents. I was fourteen and I was like, "I want an agent! It sounds awesome!" I had no idea what that was. I thought those guys looked like men in black. They were hanging around in suits all the time. So I luckily got a very good agent in London and started auditioning. And then when I was 16, I got my first film and I've been working ever since.

I loved 'Harry Potter' growing up. I'm dyslexic and a slow reader, but I could get through the thick ones in days!

I like to cook Vietnamese pho or vegetarian curries. I need to cook more but I need somebody to cook with.

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.

David Cameron was a good-looking chap in his day!

Communication is important.

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?

I am huge water sports fan. I love to jet ski, speedboat, water ski. So I love to get away to somewhere sunny and just get on the water and have some fun with some friends.

I believe if you're prepared to kill the animal, you're allowed to eat it.

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.

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.

You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything.

It's very important to hold on to what you want. In front of you is very easy fame and very easy money.

I remember someone saying to my mom that it must be so glamorous to have a child acting in movies. They had no idea how hard it was for her.

I don't think I've reached perfection by any stretch of the imagination, but maybe someday I'll become a perfectionist.

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.

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.

I'm still in the first baby steps of my career, so I've got so much to learn and so much to figure out.

Obviously, you never shoot the scenes of a film in order or only very rarely.

Who doesn't want to fly around in a spaceship?

You can have an amazing director and terrible script, and the film's not going to be great. But if you have the most incredible script and an okay director, you could still get a really good film.

I got cast in a school play and I fell in love with that. I felt comfortable on stage and found out it was a brilliant way of expressing myself and I was happy and I could do it.

I like to travel, but honestly I really like to just be at home in London and spend time with my friends.

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.

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.

Yeah, 'Requiem for a Dream' - it'll put you off a lot of things, that film, that's for sure.

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?

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.

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.

I live by myself, which I love. In this industry, you're so often surrounded by people and busy and talking to people. It's kind of lovely when you get home to just chill out.

What annoys people is the idea that somebody has everything, and they're allowed to get away with anything. It's the sense of entitlement that gets up people's noses.

I just think if you're going to do something, do it properly.

I get bored quite easily, so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself.

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.

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.

More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.

I grew up in London, and that's where I spend most of my time. Unless I have a really good reason not to be, I'll always be in London.

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.

'Romeo & Juliet' is still relevant and real.

I think we can't feed the amount of people that are on this planet the way we are doing it.

I'm pretty romantic.

The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones, but it's not like working a 9-5 job and only having two or three weeks off a year. I may not have seen my girlfriend for two or three months, but then we can spend two or three months together solidly.

The British actors I've met and worked with have all been very supportive of each other.

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.

Romeo and Juliet were stunning and beautiful, but a lot of the other characters surrounding them were caricatures.

Have you seen Cowspiracy? It takes a lot more land to feed a meat eater than to feed a vegan or a vegetarian. It's something I'd love to get into but it's very hard to persuade people to stop things they've been doing for a long time. So maybe it needs to start with the next generation. Everyone needs to raise their children with a bit more responsibility.

I've always enjoyed being on a horse.

I turned down one of the big young adult franchises.

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.

When I was younger, I looked a lot older than I was. They have these working laws in England where you have to be 16: if you're over 16, you don't have to be restrained by working hours and things like that. In America, it's actually 18.

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.

'GQ,' you've been patiently and stylishly educating me forever. To be truly stylish, you have to be kind and courteous.

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.

I've never been aware of the difference between so-called posh actors and working-class actors.

Sometimes things are nothing on paper, but a genius director turns it into something amazing.

I had friends who ran off to become ski instructors or worked in cool bars, and I often envied them, but I know I'd quickly become bored with that kind of life. I always need to push myself.