Jamie Bell Quotes

United Kingdom, Actor
March 14, 1986

Andrew James Matfin Bell (born 14 March 1986) is an English actor and dancer. He rose to prominence for his debut role in Billy Elliot (2000), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. He is also known for his roles in the films King Kong (2005), Jumper (2008), The Adventures of Tintin (2011), Snowpiercer (2013), and Fantastic Four (2015), as well as starring as Abraham Woodhull in the television series Turn: Washington's Spies (2014).

Also known as Dancer

I'll tell you what I hate - bands like My Chemical Romance.

Jamie Bell
- Hate
Everyone is slowly catching on to this one - and I know everyone says this - but we need to make a little more effort with the environment. Everyone says they turn off their lights, but do they really?

Jamie Bell
- Environment
- Effort

I love the old Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly movies; they're so beautiful to look at. It's such a shame we don't make them anymore. Although, I don't know how you could make tap dancing current and topical.

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- Beautiful
I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own.

Jamie Bell
- Travel
- Weird
I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things.

Jamie Bell
- Different
I don't think many people can say they've been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.

Jamie Bell
- People
- Life
- Live
I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.

Jamie Bell
- Time
- Long
I'm no good at the one-liner thing. It's just not me.

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- Good

I think everyone still thinks I'm 13.

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You just have to surround yourself with people who are going to support and love you before trying to sell you as a product, or push you into something you don't want to do.

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- People
- Trying
- Support
I've got lots of weird illustrations of me from Japanese fans.

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- Weird
- Japanese
I have, I think, eight mentors. It's crazy, but I need them. They are all really important to me. They keep me grounded and advise me.

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- Important
- Crazy
My favourite superhero is obviously Batman because he's the sexiest. But I can't imagine myself as Batman.

Jamie Bell
- Superhero
- Batman
It's hard to incorporate dance into movies I think.

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- Dance

I've just been blessed to work with these really great people.

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- People
- Work
- Great
I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through.

Jamie Bell
- People
- Hate
- Amazing
I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

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- Real
I'm very good at meeting people, very outgoing.

Jamie Bell
- People
- Good
You don't miss what you never had.

Jamie Bell
I never had a father figure so I never missed it.

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- Father

Well, I am obsessive about my work. I throw myself in all the way.

Jamie Bell
- Work
If you have created an image of yourself at 13 and it is still with you at 17, it needs to be dropped.

Jamie Bell
Inner demons? Got none of them.

Jamie Bell
I excelled in English while I was at school.

Jamie Bell
- School
- English