Asa Butterfield Quotes

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Asa Butterfield

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 1, 1997

I've played a worrying number of orphans, children who have been abandoned or had something terrible happen to them.

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For me, I value connection a lot, talking to people and connecting. Don't get me wrong: I enjoy having my own time, but I think it's really important to have that connection, so living on Mars would be a struggle for me.

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Whilst I've got these opportunities, and whilst I still love doing it, acting is something I can see myself continuing forever until I get bored of it.

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I would go back to school after working on a movie, and it didn't feel I missed anything, like I had been away. I did mature pretty quickly, though, but I still sound pretty immature sometimes.

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The whole celebrity culture is super weird, but I'm part of it for some reason, and you kind of have to be as an actor to be successful.

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I always think that trying to push yourself as an actor in a direction that you've never been before, developing characters which are more difficult to get into the head of, or are more interesting and further away from yourself, is always a challenge. But, you want to take up that challenge and try your best.

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When you're hanging there twenty feet off the ground, surrounded by green screen, and all you've got is the other actor and the wonderful Gavin Hood shouting instructions at you as to what's going on; it's a really unique experience.

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My little sister, who is four, can work my mom's iPhone better than she can.

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I think I'm good at playing dramatic and serious roles, but it's not necessarily what I want to keep doing.

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A kid actor to an adult actor is a tricky one.

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All of the other books in the series... none of them are particularly like 'Ender's Game.'

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To have that normality to come back to, to totally relax and not have to deal with a lot of the pressure that's put on young actors makes it a lot easier.

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I don't look for anything in particular, like a particular genre. It's all very much to do with the quality of the script and the character as well.

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I think I can speak for a lot of people in that they would be pretty nervous about meeting Harrison Ford, and I was definitely one of those people.

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When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.

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I do have people looking up to me, which is still kind of weird to me. 'I'm like, 'Why? What have I done?'

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I don't like to set myself goals because then you might fail to reach them. I just go with the flow.

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It wasn't until I did 'Hugo' where I sort of started to think that this could be something that I do for a long time - not necessarily the rest of my life, but we'll see.

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I just read the scripts that come to me, and I see the ones which I really kind of understand and connect with, whether that's a science fiction or a period piece. It doesn't really matter as long as they're original and I have something to do with the character.

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When you're working in the industry, and you're working with people who are well known and are so regarded, you do just pick up on things. Talking to people and hearing their stories, you learn a lot.

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