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Charlie Hunnam Quotes

I think, most of the time, fame is just an inconvenience that needs to be negotiated around to get done what you’re actually trying to do.

– Charlie Hunnam

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

– Charlie Hunnam

You step in with the Seth Rogens of the world, you better have some jokes.

– Charlie Hunnam

In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet.

– Charlie Hunnam

After all the work I’ve done, I feel like I’m something of an emotion-smith. We have to tap into places on a daily basis that usually people only go in a rare occasion.

– Charlie Hunnam

In a work capacity I’m only interested in acting and producing.

– Charlie Hunnam

It’s generally more fun playing the villain.

– Charlie Hunnam

I was a little bit wary of playing Nicholas. In the script, which I think is true of the novel and the film, he’s the only character not singing and dancing in a musical style. Playing someone who is the personification of good is a little difficult.

– Charlie Hunnam

I think world creation and monster creation and all of that stuff is exciting as a secondary element of storytelling. When it becomes more important than storytelling, I get very nervous, and you sort of lose me a little bit.

– Charlie Hunnam

Good-quality travel and good-quality food are the two luxuries that I never have any guilt indulging in.

– Charlie Hunnam

I was playing pretty boys and these angelic roles like Nicholas Nickleby and all that stuff. And I was like, ‘What am I doing? This isn’t who I am, as a man or an artist.’ I had to overcome people’s belief that I was too pretty to be a badass.

– Charlie Hunnam

I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn’t go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct.

– Charlie Hunnam

Since I was young, I’ve been aware that I need time to myself to process everything.

– Charlie Hunnam

I realise few people get to live the life they always wanted, but I’m so neurotic, I don’t really think about it. I’m too busy thinking, ‘I hope I don’t screw up my next scene.’

– Charlie Hunnam

There’s a tendency in this Hollywood machinery to take on too much. You end up not being able to give everything you want.

– Charlie Hunnam

Back when I was a kid, I used to tear pages out of magazines and stick them on my bedroom wall – I had the Eternity ads on my wall and the CK One ads. My whole childhood, those were on my wall, and cut to 20 years later, being asked to be the face of one of Calvin Klein’s new fragrances is kind of surreal.

– Charlie Hunnam

I always think it’s better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in something that you don’t have complete faith in.

– Charlie Hunnam

I’m starting to get old. I want to eat some hamburgers and just relax.

– Charlie Hunnam

Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one’s career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.

– Charlie Hunnam

If I’d seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I’d intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it’s your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me.

– Charlie Hunnam

It could be my downfall, but I don’t think it is – Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it’s suicide.

– Charlie Hunnam

I get invited to literally every single movie premiere that’s going on.

– Charlie Hunnam

I don’t think I even have a clear perspective of how I’m depicted in the media.

– Charlie Hunnam

I do try not to dwell on the past too much, because I have a tendency to do that, and as I’ve gotten older, I’ve gotten very good at distancing myself from shoulda, woulda, coulda.

– Charlie Hunnam

The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there.

– Charlie Hunnam

I always think that the ability to fight and defend oneself is a skill that every man should have but endeavour never to use, you know?

– Charlie Hunnam

If I went to them all dressed up and flashed a nice smile for the cameras it would probably be easier for me to get work. But I just can’t tolerate it.

– Charlie Hunnam

There are definitely worse people to be compared with. I think Brad Pitt makes interesting decisions.

– Charlie Hunnam

So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity.

– Charlie Hunnam

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.

– Charlie Hunnam

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