Jim Sturgess Quotes
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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.
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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.
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You finish a project and start looking for something that might interest you. A lot of the films I've made are a reaction to something I've done right before.
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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.
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You just try and do as much variation and as much difference and as much as possible, so you put yourself out there to try anything, really. As long as you feel you're going to get something out of the experience, it's all worth it.
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To spend time with Ed Harris... he's an acting hero of mine, so that's a big deal for me.
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I could see when I was filming '21' that it was going to go a direction I wasn't comfortable with it going.
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It's always interesting to me to tell stories that come from difficult political climates.
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Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.
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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.
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You find most of the interesting stories are the ones that are slightly harder to get made.
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Certainly after '21' I was getting the opportunity to make a lot of money.
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Most of my friends are from the music scene.
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It was when '21' came out. I was in Los Angeles and my face was everywhere: on buses, on posters, on the side of buildings. I didn't feel that blown away by it. I was still hungry to prove myself. I realised that quite quickly, that I had to find something that challenged me from an acting point of view.
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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.
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I didn't want the words 'Spider-Man' attached to my name in any shape or form. Especially a singing one.
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When you meet somebody and you have an instant connection - why is that? Maybe you've met before? Maybe you've met in another life? Anything's possible.
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I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person.
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I'd always been quite wary of doing a romantic comedy. They all seem the same to me.
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I've probably written about three albums that no one will ever hear.
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I never met Paul McCartney.
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I'm drawn to cinema, especially when you're on a project that feels like it's going to be a challenge.
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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.
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'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.