Top 30 Charlie Hunnam Quotes

So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity.

Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.

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

I ride the same bike that I rode on ‘Sons,’ a Harley Dyna Super Glide. You know, I wish I wasn’t the guy who rode the same bike he rode on his show, but the problem is there’s no better bike out there.

I go into the gym and do 75 pullups, 75 dips, 150 squats, 150 pushups, and then 20 minutes of ab work. Done. It takes an hour; I’m in and out. I sweat the whole time.

You go through this business and you meet people that you bond with, and you get to go make movies with them. It’s wonderful. What I’ve always dreamt of, in my career, is to have a brotherhood of collaborators, and go in and out of working with them. I’m just starting to get that, and it’s really lovely.

After all the work I’ve done, I feel like I’m something of an emotion-smith. We have to tap into places on a daily basis that usually people only go in a rare occasion.

When I was a kid, probably 16 or 17, I got spotted by a model scout that wanted to represent me, and they sent me one modeling job, for Wall’s ice cream. I did one job for them, and then a catwalk shoot for Kangol caps, and decided modeling was not for me.

I think my favorite show of all time was ‘Deadwood.’

I don’t tend to watch TV. I’m like a Netflix junkie. I watch a lot of documentaries and movies on Netflix. I like ‘Downton Abbey.’

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

I was playing pretty boys and these angelic roles like Nicholas Nickleby and all that stuff. And I was like, ‘What am I doing? This isn’t who I am, as a man or an artist.’ I had to overcome people’s belief that I was too pretty to be a badass.

I don’t think I even have a clear perspective of how I’m depicted in the media.

The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there.

I’m reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I’ve set a couple of things up for next year.

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.’

Since I was young, I’ve been aware that I need time to myself to process everything.

In a work capacity I’m only interested in acting and producing.

If I have a long period of time away from acting, I tend to write.

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.

It’s been many years that I’ve been in this business. All of a sudden, I’m getting all of these wonderful people approaching me and asking me to work with them. It’s very hard to say no when you love and respect people.

I tend to go to bed really early on New Year’s Eve. Then I wake up early, drive up while it’s still dark, and hike out somewhere beautiful to watch the sunrise. I just take a couple hours and have a post-mortem of the year.

I grew up in an environment where it was permittable to use violence to solve a problem. But it was not permittable ever to call the police under any circumstances. That was the kind of doctrine of my household. My dad was a career-long criminal, and you weren’t calling the police for any reason.

In particular, the film ‘Excalibur’ was definitely one of those films that was instrumental in me realizing that I wanted to become an actor.

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

I’m starting to get old. I want to eat some hamburgers and just relax.

I love hip hop music, I make hip hop music.

I always think it’s better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in something that you don’t have complete faith in.

I do try not to dwell on the past too much, because I have a tendency to do that, and as I’ve gotten older, I’ve gotten very good at distancing myself from shoulda, woulda, coulda.

Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one’s career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.