Top 100 Finn Wolfhard Quotes

The Goonies’ I love. ‘Heathers’ too.

I love learning on set, it’s the best acting school ever.

I love doing both animation and live acting.

I’ve been asked to school dances.

For me, I need to listen to music in the morning, and after, it’s kind of like a shower, you know what I mean? It’s kind of getting rid of everything. I always play music after I act. It’s not a conscious thing, like, ‘Oh finally, I need to do this,’ it’s kind of a constant need.

My parents are great. On every job, my whole family and I try to get as many breaks as I can.

I think I’m really bad at voice acting.

I was raised in a household where kids’ opinions were just as valued as adults and I think that was important for me.

It was cool when the Duffers assigned a list of movies to watch.

My dad would play ‘The Blue Album’ a lot, the first Weezer album, and that influenced my alternative indie thing and that’s kind of how I found tons and most of my favorite bands.

Weird Al’ is awesome and so humble.

I’m always interested in horror and the supernatural.

Messing up lines is always embarrassing for me.

I never knew anyone who have growing up who had a clown at their birthday party. They are something I think of as being from the past. So I never had strong feelings about them. I do think that they can be creepy, I guess it depends on the clown.

Pup, who’s like the most amazing, they’re keeping rock ‘n’ roll and punk alive.

For me, I need to listen to music in the morning, and after, it’s kind of like a shower, you know what I mean? It’s kind of getting rid of everything. I always play music after I act. It’s not a conscious thing, like, ‘Oh finally, I need to do this,’ it’s kind of a constant need.

Jason Reitman is an amazing director; he’s really amazing with his actors and crew.

It’s really cool when the thing you are working on as a small team gets embraced by millions, but in the end, it’s about your character and the script and your director and the rest of the cast and crew.

I’d actually love to do more comedy, but what I really wanna do is an indie drama – an intense indie road-trip movie.

I learn a new thing every single day about acting, about directing, about producing.

It’s intriguing to me, when I see a horror script, or something like that, that’s actually original. I think that’s why I love ‘Stranger Things,’ because it’s not just horror, it’s everything, and when they use horror it’s right.

Jason Reitman is an amazing director; he’s really amazing with his actors and crew.

Well, we shoot for so long on ‘Stranger Things’ that I know Atlanta really well.

The aliens from ‘Attack the Block’ – I thought they were some of the most unique and creative movie monsters I had ever seen. From the jet-black hair to the neon blue teeth.

PUP introduced me to so much more amazing music. They really shaped my sound.

I really used to like TVMaxwell, which is a classic, amazing, super-underrated comedy channel. And Cyndago was great.

Doing a scene by yourself is scarier – you know you don’t have other people to fall back on.

I never liked horror up until I was like 10 years old.

Scary movies, for me, I used to be insanely scared of.

I get recognized on the street and stuff, which is cool but it’s also weird.

My dad is a screenwriter, so he always used to watch movies for inspiration when I was a baby. I would watch movies with him, I guess, in the background.

I try to keep my voice natural for each character, but the spirit and the cadence and breathing for each character is totally different. It’s those things that set each role apart from the others.

When I was younger, I acted in some Shakespeare stuff; I did one Shakespeare camp.

It’s my given, full name. Finn’s not short for anything; it’s just Finn Wolfhard. And then Wolfhard means, I think, heart of the wolf in German.

I don’t want to get typecast and I’ve been doing a lot of stuff to make that happen and not be the case.

I’d seen all of John Hughes’s movies. All the Spielberg stuff. A bunch of ’80s horror, like ‘Evil Dead.’

I watch a lot of YouTube videos. I like game play channels like the Game Grumps. But I mostly watch sketch comedy.

My favorite thing is to have collectives. Even when it comes to filmmaking as well, filmmaking and music and most art in general, I feel like everyone should have the same say. If you’re in a collective, I feel like everyone should have the same say.

Weird Al’ is awesome and so humble.

I’m always interested in horror and the supernatural.

Well, we shoot for so long on ‘Stranger Things’ that I know Atlanta really well.

The movies I was scared by at three or four are now some of my favorite movies of all time.

My whole thing is having the perfect balance. Let’s say I go to school. I have a day at school. That’s the perfect amount of reality. Then I go and play music with my band. Then I go home and hang out with my family and my pets. I think that’s the perfect amount of reality time.

People deal with death differently; some even laugh at funerals.

Any chance I get to see a band that I like, I take it.

There’s a band from Brooklyn called Frankie Cosmos, which is very nice.

I’m definitely not eager to grow up, but I do like some adult stuff.

It’s going to sound cheesy, but if I have family and friends I don’t really care where I am.

The more I read scripts, the more I learn about scripts, basically.

I’d recommend anyone watch ‘Harold and Maude,’ ’cause it helps a lot with fear of death.

I never liked horror up until I was like 10 years old.

I’ve really never discovered a band from Spotify or anything. I’ve really only discovered it from friends.

My parents were in high school and college in the ’80s, so let’s just say I’ve heard some stuff, man. We listen to a lot of music and watch lots of great films, but the real context they provide from that era is about politics.

Everyone wants to be funny. Maybe not everyone, but to an extent.

The things I want to focus on are music, writing, directing, and developing stuff.

I love acting, of course, and I would still love to keep acting, but I want to try my hands at so many things.

I have lots of friends who are musicians and it is such a huge victory to survive in music, period – but if you get sick or injured and don’t have the kind of coverage we get in Canada, you are doomed.

I don’t want to get typecast and I’ve been doing a lot of stuff to make that happen and not be the case.

I mean if anyone’s comfortable being famous, they’re a psychopath.

It’s intriguing to me, when I see a horror script, or something like that, that’s actually original. I think that’s why I love ‘Stranger Things,’ because it’s not just horror, it’s everything, and when they use horror it’s right.

I’m not a big radio listener.

If I hadn’t done the PUP video, I probably wouldn’t be playing music right now.

Some bands I’m obsessed with but I get sick of listening to their music after a while, but that hasn’t happened with Twin Peaks.

I wanted to be a director and comedian and my plan was to go to NYU. I wanted to be in UCB.

Jonah Hill is super cool.

I try to keep my voice natural for each character, but the spirit and the cadence and breathing for each character is totally different. It’s those things that set each role apart from the others.

My dad, who is a screenwriter, showed me all these great movies. He showed me ‘E.T.’ when I was 2-years-old, and I just kind of progressed from there. It was also my brother. We’d always watch movies together, and he’d do these voices and he’d always want to do skits and he’d come up with stuff with me.

I read ‘Carrie’ when I was younger and that’s one of my favourite books.

I love ’80s and ’90s music.

I mainly use Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. Those are my three.

I mean if anyone’s comfortable being famous, they’re a psychopath.

I love retro culture. I love retro games; I love retro music.

If I lounge around for too long, I get really bored. I have to be doing something.

Sewer rats are really gross.

I think I’m really bad at voice acting.

I’m good at reading people. If I wasn’t an actor, I would be a psychologist.

I have lots of friends who are musicians and it is such a huge victory to survive in music, period – but if you get sick or injured and don’t have the kind of coverage we get in Canada, you are doomed.

There’s so many influential albums my parents would put on. Like the first album I ever heard was ‘Help!’ by the Beatles and from there I just loved rock music.

PUP introduced me to so much more amazing music. They really shaped my sound.

I love being Canadian.

I need time to do whatever I want to do. What happens to an actor that has no life experience? They don’t know how to act as a different role. So, that’s really important to do.

I’m good at reading people. If I wasn’t an actor, I would be a psychologist.

I probably saw ‘Jaws’ when I was 10.