23 Quotes by Aidan Turner

When you walk onto a Peter Jackson set, you can see straightaway that money isn't an issue.

There's no point in really making something if it doesn't appeal to a lot of people or the masses or if it's not seen by a lot of people.

You can have a good vibe and a good feeling about something, but you never really know how it's going to be received and how an audience is going to react to it.

Sometimes during a show or a film, while you're shooting it, you'll think, "This is great, it's going to be fantastic, the script is incredible, and the actors are great, and everything is working out brilliantly." And then you see it, and you kind of go, "Oh god, it's not as good as I thought it was," and it doesn't get an audience to watch it. It only does a couple of festivals and then dies and whatever.

You can't beat a love triangle.

It's hard to know at any stage whether a show is going to work or not. Every few years, a different trend comes along.

I didn't want to feel like I was mimicking or copying someone else's performance, whether it's subconscious or not.

Every actor wants to change things up a bit. You don't want to be pigeonholed, and not just because of what the industry might think.

I feel like a bit of a phony sometimes - I started acting because I didn’t know what else to do. I filled in all these university application forms and honestly didn’t want to do any of the courses.