126 Quotes by Charlie Hunnam

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

I watch these actors who when you go to buy a pint of milk you see them smiling on the cover of 20 magazines. Then when you see them in a film it's hard to believe the character because you just see them everywhere

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

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

I find aspects of the industry tedious and hard to manage.

Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along

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.

I'm happy being an actor, it's what I have always wanted to do. I'm just lucky I got to do it so early.

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.