It always seemed to me like it was a significant thing to do with one's life to be an actor 'cause I love movies and I felt like, not to be grandiose about it, but there is something important about film with the function it provides to general society.

Charlie Hunnam

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

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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.

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I think the work is always going to be much better when it's important and personal to you.

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I'm usually the guy who knocks everyone out in order to get the girl.

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I think when you live your destiny, you allow yourself to get in touch with your inner essence. What's difficult in life is the economic and social requirements that distract us from bringing forth our true passion.

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I mean I’m 16 and 17 years wiser now. So if I could do it when I was 18 with a guy, I can certainly do it at 33 with a lady.

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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.

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It's generally more fun playing the villain

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I think we can affect our own fates, but there's also a powerful energy that's the universe or God or whatever your unconscious recognizes that helps along your way.

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I don't just look at things as an actor. I've also written several films, so I look at it as a storyteller and I know if something worked and should have been in there for the benefit of the story and the benefit of the character.

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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

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I have too many control issues, so it just is not good for me to go and watch a film, too soon after I make it.

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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

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

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It's always difficult to really sum up exactly why a relationship works.

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To fight monsters, we created monsters of our own.

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No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

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I've been profoundly germophobic since I was a young child. I don't want to kiss anyone but my girlfriend for my whole life.

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The landscape of cinema is not original. Not to say there aren't great movies being made, but it's much easier for studios to make movies that have built-in audiences. So it's all remakes, adaptations, a lot of remakes of adaptations.

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

Charlie Hunnam

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