Being able to do lead roles in pictures or onstage or whatever it is that you’re doing in acting is obviously what you strive for because you want to better yourself as an actor and you want to better yourself as a person as well. But that does come with a lot of responsibility and a great deal of weight. – Jamie Campbell Bower
Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He’s always been there. I can’t remember starting school and not learning about him. – Jamie Campbell Bower
There’s nothing worse than finishing your last take on a movie and thinking, ‘God! I finally nailed who this guy was!’ – Jamie Campbell Bower
I don’t mind if people are saying nasty things about me behind my back – I just don’t want to know about them. – Jamie Campbell Bower
I want to do more movies. I feel like it’s a totally different skill set than there is to theater. It’s much more internal. – Jamie Campbell Bower
I’m an extrovert, I like to gesticulate and talk loud and stuff, and the theater is easy for me. – Jamie Campbell Bower
You know, Johnny Depp has always been a massive inspiration for me and he’s somebody who has produced an incredible amount of work, and every single piece that he does is amazing. – Jamie Campbell Bower
‘Hamlet’ is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I’d like to be involved in. – Jamie Campbell Bower
My essentials are skinny jeans, loose-fitting tees, big jumpers, and the leather jacket. Everything is black or blue – I don’t own anything colorful. – Jamie Campbell Bower
For me, it’s interesting because I never thought of myself as an action man, but apparently I can do it, so that’s good to know. – Jamie Campbell Bower
I wanted to be a part of the first ‘Twilight’ movie, and unfortunately, it didn’t work out so great. So when they came back and were like, ‘Do you want to come in for a part for the second movie,’ I was like, ‘Absolutely.’ – Jamie Campbell Bower
I was obsessed with girls when I was 13 years old; I wasn’t really into books. – Jamie Campbell Bower
I suppose with any character that you play you always bring your personal experience to it. You always bring people that you know or that you’ve met and sort of – this is what I do, I mean, I don’t know what anyone else does – but people that you know or that you’ve met that have affected you in certain ways, you bring into it. – Jamie Campbell Bower
I always had the idea that I wanted to perform. I love being the center of attention – and I always love talking about myself. – Jamie Campbell Bower
Being on a movie set is wonderful experience, but it’s a bubble – it isn’t real life. – Jamie Campbell Bower
People can hate on you for doing what it is that makes you happy, but ultimately, it has to belong to you. It shouldn’t matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment. – Jamie Campbell Bower
