43 Quotes by Jack O'Connell

It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text.

You think you know death, but you don't, not until you've seen it, really seen it... And it gets under your skin and lives inside you.You also think you know life, stand on the edge of things and what you go by but you're not living it, not really, you're just a tourist, a ghost, then you see it, really see it, it gets under your skin and lives inside you, and there's no escape, there's nothing to be done, and you know what? it's good, it's a good thing.And that’s all I’ve got to say about it.

We accepted a higher proportion of English-learner students than any other state in the country, ... Our exclusion rate of English learners was 12%, while Texas' exclusion rate was 37.5% and New York's was 29%.

The fact that more than half of our students have not yet achieved proficiency on the state's content standards, and that a wide achievement gap continues, shows how much work still needs to be done,

Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.

My first experience on a feature film was with Shane Meadows on 'This Is England.'

Revenues did go up, and according to our agreement with the governor public education should have been one of the beneficiaries.

I worked on a farm for a little bit.

I'd be lying if I said I never think about my female fans in certain shots and certain scenes. Like, when I'm topless, I might think: 'This one is for the ladies.'