Douglas Booth Quotes
What is life unless you're having a good time? I don't really have a plan; I just try to dip my toes in different ponds.
I've always had a social awareness. My favorite channel on TV is BBC News 24. For a while, I had to have it on repeat in my house. I've always been interested in what's going on in the world.
As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.
For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.
We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press.
On a Friday night, I like to go out because my friends, who have been working normal hours, just want to let go after a stressful week at work.
The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones.
When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it, you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.
I knew I wanted to do something creative. I am dyslexic, so I really struggled in school. I knew I was never going to sit behind a desk or do something involving numbers.
When I do go to L.A., it is usually for a reason - to meet with a director or something - but I'm always so happy to go back to London.
I had friends who ran off to become ski instructors or worked in cool bars, and I often envied them, but I know I'd quickly become bored with that kind of life. I always need to push myself.
I remember someone saying to my mom that it must be so glamorous to have a child acting in movies. They had no idea how hard it was for her.
I live for challenges. In my career, all I want to do is try to challenge myself and have a varied career.
As a kid, I used to run around our garden waving a stick and pretending to be a million different people. That's why I became an actor, really.
When I meet girls, I pray that they don't know who I am. But I know that's limiting myself quite a lot.
I like to travel, but honestly I really like to just be at home in London and spend time with my friends.
The best thing I've ever done for a girl hopefully is make them happy. Isn't that the most romantic thing you can do?
I love the challenge of playing characters forced on life-changing emotional journeys. To work on a project with Billy Crudup and Sam Rockwell is just a dream come true.
I don't think I've reached perfection by any stretch of the imagination, but maybe someday I'll become a perfectionist.
I'm still in the first baby steps of my career, so I've got so much to learn and so much to figure out.
I live alone so I always just eat out. When I'm in another relationship, then maybe we'll start cooking together.
More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.
I suppose to a certain degree. London's my favorite place on the planet and the reason for that is its fantastic diversity.
I live by myself, which I love. In this industry, you're so often surrounded by people and busy and talking to people. It's kind of lovely when you get home to just chill out.
I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I took up the trumpet and just did that every day and practiced that.
I got cast in a school play and I fell in love with that. I felt comfortable on stage and found out it was a brilliant way of expressing myself and I was happy and I could do it.
I think we can't feed the amount of people that are on this planet the way we are doing it.
I like to cook Vietnamese pho or vegetarian curries. I need to cook more but I need somebody to cook with.
Each character you play has its own set of characteristics, for want of a better word.
Sometimes a script comes along that really makes you sit up and pay attention... 'Life at These Speeds' has an emotional intensity that really kicked me in the guts.
I'd imagine a great date would be to go skiing. Imagine going skiing. Go ski with someone, if they can ski.
I think it's more important to seek the truth than to try and be perfect, to be honest.
I love movies. That's still my favorite form of escape, and I usually end up going alone. I love to go and sit in the theater by myself, no distractions.
I grew up in London, and that's where I spend most of my time. Unless I have a really good reason not to be, I'll always be in London.
Sometimes things are nothing on paper, but a genius director turns it into something amazing.
Being blinded by young love. I remember the feeling, when I first fell in love - you don't see the world the same way that other people see it. You don't see the same boundaries.
I've spent a lot of my teenage years working on sets. I've missed out on more than just playing rugby, but I think I've managed to keep my feet on the ground and keep my friends around me.
It's better to think of life as a proper journey with a beginning and an end. Maybe, I can settle for being immortalised on screen.
I fell in love at 14 and I remember that mad, tense feeling and all the mad things you do for the person - all those extremes and all the stuff you don't mind putting up with.
You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything.
I was lucky enough to get a very good agent at the age of 15, and got my first film when I was 16, so it's been rolling on since then.
I'm just trying to choose interesting, quirky projects or things with interesting directors or just movies that have a lot of people I like attached to them so I know I'm going to have a good time.
Every year I look at the 'GQ' Best-Dressed List and have thought what an honour it must be to be included. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw my own face in there.
It's really important to take time for yourself because if you don't know what it is like to be a real person and spend time with a sense of normality, how can you play normal people in films?
