Eddie Redmayne Quotes

Up there on the screen, we can all fly. But down here on earth, we need to be each others wings.

I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.

I'm as voyeuristic and intrigued as the next person as to how celebrities live.

Learning lines is hard for me because I have the attention span of a six year old. That's why being on planes all the time is so useful - I'm forced to learn out of boredom.

The fear of messing up is what makes you work harder!

I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.

They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.

You never know what's right, what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.

I love the Potter films. I found them the most wonderful sort of escapism every year or two.

It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can’t have.

Tequila is my salmon.

I draw and play the piano badly. But when I’m doing those things, I’m concentrating so hard there’s no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.

Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks.

It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people.

A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.

Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that.

If you've loved something and then in some ways you become a part of it, you just don't want to be the one that screws it up!

The depiction of the exterior as opposed [to] what you're feeling inside is always so different that it's impossible to know what is right.

I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars.

I always think of comedy as being spontaneous, and yet everything about filmmaking is not spontaneous.

If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.

I go to the theater two or three times a week when I'm in London. Whereas I feel guilty going to the cinema in the middle of the afternoon.

Two years ago, I shot 'Pillars of the Earth' in Budapest - it was a big part, but I had a lot of time to sit around and visit cafes.

My dad works in finance, so he kept giving me the stats: only one in a hundred actors makes it. He'd ask, 'Have you thought about producing?'