We spent a few days in a hotel room doing these...trust and acting exercises, it's weird, you don't often stare into people's eyes that long and when you do...you really quickly start to pick up on micro-expressions or whatever they give off and feelings perhaps and you just link up in a way.

Nicholas Hoult

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Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motiva... by Nicholas Hoult

Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.

motivation giving people

It's always a bit overwhelming when you arrive on set and everyone's new, but you soon become a big family. I find the hardest thing about acting is that you have to say goodbye to everyone at the end of a shoot.

big-families acting goodbye

I don't really have disappointments, because I build myself up fo... by Nicholas Hoult

I don't really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection.

rejection disappointment

I think all teenagers feel alone, and that nobody else knows what they are going through and all that sort of stuff.

teenager stuff thinking

I think if you set yourself specific goals, that's quite a lot of... by Nicholas Hoult

I think if you set yourself specific goals, that's quite a lot of pressure.

goal pressure thinking

I was really in to shiny things when I was younger and I stole a shiny tag for my dog. I didn't get caught. I hope I don't go to jail for that.

Supposedly I'm impossible to talk to. But it's honestly not me being difficult. Sometimes you just don't have a lot to say.

difficult impossible sometimes

Nowadays we have so many things that take our attention - phones, Internet - and perhaps we need to disconnect from those and focus on the immediate world around us and the people that are actually present.

phones focus people

If you're out, and starving, and need a bite to eat, then you nee... by Nicholas Hoult

If you're out, and starving, and need a bite to eat, then you need fast food.

starving fast-food needs

I won't eat veal, and my mum won't eat lamb, because she thinks i... by Nicholas Hoult

I won't eat veal, and my mum won't eat lamb, because she thinks it's a bit harsh to eat cute things.

lambs cute thinking

By the time I was 14, I was about six foot. I remember going into auditions, and they'd look at how tall I was and say, 'Well, you're taller than the lead actor, so there's no way we can cast you.

actors feet looks

I don't think parents always know where their children are going or what they are doing, what they are up to.

parent children thinking

I'm not one of those people who's saying "I'm going to set up a production company", because I like acting and not having to be a business man and do that side of things.

acting men people

Occasionally people will look at me and do a double take and theyll look at me like theyre trying to think where they know me from.

trying people thinking

My mum always says work goes in waves: you have a good spell and... by Nicholas Hoult

My mum always says work goes in waves: you have a good spell and then it dips.

As a kid, when you're in a film with somebody, you look up to the... by Nicholas Hoult

As a kid, when you're in a film with somebody, you look up to them, you know?

film kids looks

I don't like watching myself. I get embarrassed. by Nicholas Hoult

I don't like watching myself. I get embarrassed.

That's the main thing, looking for interesting characters, good directors, and experiences where you're growing and learning.

character directors interesting

I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.

optimistic depressing work-out

Long-term boredom can't lead to anything good. by Nicholas Hoult

Long-term boredom can't lead to anything good.

boredom term long