Jamie Dornan Quotes

When I think of sex symbols, I think of posters my two sisters had on their bedroom walls.

I've always needed to bulk up, so until the modeling took off I was ramming Big Macs down my throat and doing plenty of bodyweight work. I'm over the Big Macs now, but I'll still drop down and do my press ups whenever I find the time.

I didn't do particularly well with girls at school. I was very shy. I'm not saying that was the only reason I didn't do well with them, but I just didn't.

I want to keep an element of myself in every character I play. And maybe that's connected to finding something that you like in every character. Maybe they coincide.

Because I used to play a lot of sport, I've always been in decent enough shape. When I used to get asked to do a bit of body work before a photo shoot I'd lie and say, 'Yeah, I'm going to the gym.' I literally never did anything.

I defy anyone to watch interviews with Ted Bundy and not be taken by him. He was very handsome and charming and extremely intelligent and, you know, that can exist.

Although just being employed as an actor is a big thing, I'm not sure I'd be satisfied playing the same character for 30 years; it's not why I want to do this for a living.

One of my favorite things about my life is that I have the same group of friends that I grew up with. I love them so dearly, and we give each other a hard time.

I guess I'm just lucky with my genes.

Basically, I've always had a complex with the way I walk. I've not always been told I've got a bad walk, but someone's always commented on my walk.

Every role is physical to a certain extent, but as a viewer, I don't respond well to actors doing more than they need to tell a story.

I am never going to please all 100 million people who read the book. I'll be lucky if half that number are happy with me playing Christian Grey. I know there are campaigns of hate against me already.

Addiction is a terrible thing.

I feel very tied to Ireland and the U.K. and that side of the world.

People ask me what Gillian Anderson's like to work with, and I have no idea!

To play any character, you have to have a total understanding of why they do what they do.

A doctor once told me I have abnormal levels of adrenaline in my system.

I grew up in a very liberal place.

I don't think if you looked up all the main points of feminism I would tick every one essentially myself.

I could eat 10 packs of Hula Hoops a day and not think about it.

I can't really do the running on hard ground that I used to do. Instead I go swimming as often as possible.

What kid doesn't want to pretend they're James Bond?

People attach too much to the idea of being a model, that you can only be a certain way to have done it. You will always be dealing with it. You're an actor who used to be a model who never trained; there are not many directors queuing up.

I don't really have choices in the material I get. So I have to make the choices in the way I play the characters.

There's no easy time to lose a parent.

Being a leading man can come in many different forms.

Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.

I've never felt massively satisfied from standing there while someone takes my photograph. It's never given me a thrill.

I'm quite hyper, and my wife would prefer it if I sat down and read a book.

I read a lot about serial killers.

I love fatherhood.

I think people from Northern Ireland have some kind of unspoken general feeling of what it is to be around segregation. You have an awareness of it because you know how much grief it's caused.

The man is meant to be the alpha in the relationship on the money and power front.

It's a strange environment, being hounded. The paparazzi are cretins.

There are so many ways to make a living that don't involve hiding in bushes opposite houses of 18-year-old girls with a camera in your hand.

You want roles that challenge you and that scare you a little and where you can really discover something, even about yourself, that maybe you didn't understand.

I'm probably the worst person for 'Men's Health' to interview.

Christian Grey - he isn't a real person. He's a superhero. A myth. He's like Bigfoot! He's unbelievable. He's unattainable. There's no actor in the world who could live up to that.

Mass appreciation doesn't always equate to something good.

Now and again, an actor will blow my mind by doing something really unexpected, like Mickey Rourke or Christopher Walken - you have absolutely no idea what they're going to do, which is really thrilling to watch.

I do not understand people who do not read. What are they doing in their free times?

I'm not saying we had a playroom, but I'm not shocked by [the sex in the book]. It's essential to tell the story. I can't believe films that don't invoke a sexual side of it. So it works for me.

I feel very settled. I'm not running in and out of clubs at 5 A.M. anymore.

You'd be hard-pressed to find an actor who isn't a sex symbol somewhere.

No matter what happens in my career, I've always got 'The Fall.'

If you are a skinny, baby-faced teenager, the last thing you want to hear is that you're cute.

I don't like myself without a beard.

I'm a fairly worldly guy.

I was a skinny guy growing up, and I still feel like that same skinny kid.

Everyone likes a bit of competition.

I'd always really wanted to act; but the modelling contracts came more easily.

I've never read anything set in Belfast that doesn't involve the Troubles or something senseless over a flag.

I'm not saying that experiencing loss is why I can cope with darker worlds - I'm not saying that for a second - but I think it opens up a side of you in terms of work that wouldn't be as accessible had that stuff not happened.