Jim Sturgess Quotes

British actors come at acting from a slightly different angle. Because a lot of the films are cast out there, they are so used to the angle from which the Americans, and certainly the young guys from L.A., are coming at it, that I think it's interesting for them to find these English actors who maybe approach acting from a different place.

I never met Paul McCartney.

Definitely River Phoenix is somebody that I thought, 'This guy is very cool.' I wanted to be like him when I was a kid.

I didn't want the words 'Spider-Man' attached to my name in any shape or form. Especially a singing one.

You find most of the interesting stories are the ones that are slightly harder to get made.

I'd always been quite wary of doing a romantic comedy. They all seem the same to me.

Out of every 10 scripts I get sent, seven are fairly generic about an American guy who gets the girl and is involved in underground espionage activity.

When I was younger, I looked to actors like they were from another planet. You couldn't believe you could be anywhere near that world. It was exciting. I kind of like that.

I was quite badly behaved at school - I remember cutting class - and acting was a way of channelling energy.

You could pick another two people and you'd have a whole other story and that's why films about love get made and made and made - because there's a million ways to tell it and no two stories are the same.

'Upside Down' is a fantasy love story. It's about love at first sight - when you just fall in love instantly and will battle any obstacle to be with that girl.

In the world of independent filmmaking, you're never quite sure what's happening when and where.

To spend time with Ed Harris ... he's an acting hero of mine, so that's a big deal for me.

Most of my friends are from the music scene.

It kind of sounds pretentious, but a film I find deeply romantic is 'Buffalo '66,' which is a film by Vincent Gallo. It's about how you break down all those barriers and expose yourself and open yourself up to ultimately being hurt.

The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.

Sometimes you read a script, and you just think, 'Wow, I would love to go and tell that story, and I don't even care what happens to the film, I would just love that experience.' And often, that mentality makes a great film.

It's always interesting to me to tell stories that come from difficult political climates.

I worked as an actor for a few years before anything happened, so I'm used to going up for auditions, and then not getting the role. But sometimes I don't read the book of the film, in case I just totally fall in love with it, and then it just becomes an obsession and you want to do it so much because you've completely fallen in love with the story and the characters. And then, if the part doesn't go your way, it's heartbreaking. So, there's a certain amount of distance you have to keep before you can throw yourself in 100%.

I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person.

I moved to Manchester to join a band and ended up getting into acting, and I moved back to London to become an actor and ended up joining a band.

Certainly after '21' I was getting the opportunity to make a lot of money.

Home is here in London and always has been.

Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.

Come on, you can't do a film about an upside-down world and not have an upside-down kiss!

After 'The Way Back,' which was so epic and so rich, it was like, 'What will I do now?'

As you wake up to sort of Morocco coming to life, and you drive a two hour journey through the desert as the sun is rising over the sand dunes ... I saw landscapes and visual stuff that I'll never forget. It was special.

I really don't like the idea of people knowing what I am doing. I find telling everybody what you had for breakfast is really uninspiring.