I have a younger brother. Freddie Highmore More Quotes by Freddie Highmore More Quotes From Freddie Highmore When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don't have to be crying; sometimes it's the opposite. You laugh when you're the most upset. Freddie Highmore upsetoppositeslaughing As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what people are thinking about you at the time because they're not caring about you, they're caring about the character. Freddie Highmore thinking-about-youcaringcharacter Today the sort of thing for a guy in England growing up is that you have to suppress all your emotions. It's almost like you have to sit back and be cool. Freddie Highmore growing-upguytoday I always try doing a different character for every film so it's not just changing one. Freddie Highmore differenttryingcharacter We live alone, we die alone. Everything else is just an illusion. Freddie Highmore illusiondies I'm not a sad person, upset the whole time, but I seem to be quite emotional. Freddie Highmore sad-personupsetemotional It seemed really easy waving your hands around, it wouldn't make any difference if you were moving it left or right, but I wanted to do it realistically. I think you can tell if someone doesn't know what they're doing. Freddie Highmore handsmovingthinking People build up a picture of Johnny Depp as being some sort of weird pirate character. In reality he's incredibly nice... one of the nicest people I've ever met. Freddie Highmore nicecharacterreality It's very nice having my mum as my agent. You know that she's always doing what's best for you. Freddie Highmore mumagentsnice Also "Catcher in the Rye", which happens to be one of my favorite books, I just found that kind of useful. It helps you get into the American accent. Freddie Highmore kindhelpingbook Scary is good. Kids like going to a movie and being really scared rather than fake scared. Freddie Highmore being-realfakekids For every different role you play it's nice to have different challenges for each one. Freddie Highmore nicechallengesplay I guess you wouldn't dare to dream that you would get to the end of five years. Freddie Highmore daredream I like all sorts of chocolate. Milk chocolate, dark chocolate, anything. Freddie Highmore milkchocolatedark I always tend to see, right after reading the script, the character and how I want to play it. I guess that's sort of most of the work, preparing for the role, but almost the creation of the character seems to go on as I read through the script. Freddie Highmore readingplaycharacter I like hot weather. I think it might be a bit better if England was a bit hotter. Freddie Highmore hotweatherthinking I don't go home and pretend I'm August rather than just the actual lines I'm saying in the film. If you do it that way, it makes it more natural and second nature. After awhile you get used to it and there's so much, especially being in New York to film; you're always surrounded by American people. Freddie Highmore augustnew-yorkhome I think I've always been kept grounded. I've never been too involved with the movie business apart from just doing the film. I've never moved out to LA like a lot of people or been too drawn in by that. Freddie Highmore filmpeoplethinking It was great to do August Rush and have all the challenges of playing that character, especially the American accent for the first time and also playing the guitar and the conducting I had to do. Freddie Highmore guitaraugustcharacter I guess I'm just a normal kid apart from the acting. Freddie Highmore normalactingkids
