Jamie Bell Quotes
What's weird is that I work with these directors and then I start channeling them. I kind of turn into them a bit - which is cool when you're working with Clint Eastwood.
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where we could fool around, and drama was it because we'd do improvs, beating each other up. They left a year later, and I stayed in and got a knack for it, and enjoyed the whole process.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty.
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Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
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I lost my father very young, but not young enough to not be aware of what was going on. My father and I had an amazing relationship. We were very close.
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I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.
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Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.'
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What's weird is that I work with these directors and then I start channeling them. I kind of turn into them a bit - which is cool when you're working with Clint Eastwood.
