125 Quotes by Jamie Bell

I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting – it’s gothic and very urban and there’s a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings.

I’m just a small guy so if I’d dropped any more weight it would have been a bit ridiculous.

I look at my contemporaries, and we’re all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things.

I’m proud of my works. But there’s not one thing that I can put my finger on and say, “That is my greatest achievement. That’s my proudest moment.” That’s so tricky to me.

I remember when I first came to America and I saw posters for TV shows and I was like, “What?! Why does a television show deserve space on a billboard?”

TV is a big business. In some ways, it’s surpassed films, in terms of the way people invest in these shows and invest in these characters, and give up so much of their time to follow these people’s stories.

I don’t think many people can say they’ve been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.

I think it was the sense that Turn is a spy thriller, and that’s a genre that really fascinates me, in general.

I think as English people, we don’t want to be reminded that at one point we ruled three-quarters of the globe, and now we’re a very small country that doesn’t own three-quarters of the globe.