Words matter. These are the best Sam Claflin Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I keep in touch with what’s real.
A famous actor told me once – I don’t want to name names, I hate that sort of thing – but I was at his house and he said, ‘Are you on Twitter?’ I said, ‘Yes, I am.’ And he said, ‘There’ll be one day when you’ll have, like, five friends. And in the same day it’ll go to five thousand.’
I’m open to all the elements, I’m definitely ready to take anything on. But I don’t want to jump too far into the deep end.
I don’t go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don’t hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.
I purposefully did not want to watch anything I’ve done so far; I actually don’t like looking at my face, so I don’t like watching myself on the screen. It’s an insecurity thing I have.
I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.
Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you’re going to make it. But there’s a part of you that’s got to be realistic and say: ‘Look, it might not happen to me.’
I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6’3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.
I think it’s every actor’s dream to play a character that’s really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself.
L.A. is my office. I come here for work and work only.
I’m very English. I’m white. I mean, I’m so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.
When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and my first ever show was ‘Jesus Christ Superstar.’ Everyone’s familiar with it. I played priest number 3 and sang so out of tune that it’s not even funny.
I always try to be true to who I am and just be myself.
I’ve lived with boys and girls, and I find that boys are generally cleaner than girls. Generally! This is a big generalization!
I’m somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.
I have to prove myself in a lot of ways – as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
Get yourself into every audition that you can. Even in those for smaller roles, you’ll never know when someone may recommend you for a bigger one.
In England, when we’re at drama school, we spend a lot of time learning the craft from playwrights and stage actors, who are very well trained in the basics of acting because they need to get it right the first time – you can’t have second or third takes when you’re in front of a live audience, unlike in film.
