Charlie Hunnam Quotes

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Charlie Hunnam

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 10, 1980

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.

Charlie Hunnam

I really, really pride myself on being a professional and a man of keeping my word. It means a lot to me, truly.

Charlie Hunnam

Back when I was a kid, I used to tear pages out of magazines and stick them on my bedroom wall - I had the Eternity ads on my wall and the CK One ads. My whole childhood, those were on my wall, and cut to 20 years later, being asked to be the face of one of Calvin Klein's new fragrances is kind of surreal.

Charlie Hunnam

Good-quality travel and good-quality food are the two luxuries that I never have any guilt indulging in.

Charlie Hunnam

If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me.

Charlie Hunnam

I get invited to literally every single movie premiere that's going on.

Charlie Hunnam

There are definitely worse people to be compared with. I think Brad Pitt makes interesting decisions.

Charlie Hunnam

I think, most of the time, fame is just an inconvenience that needs to be negotiated around to get done what you're actually trying to do.

Charlie Hunnam

I was a little bit wary of playing Nicholas. In the script, which I think is true of the novel and the film, he's the only character not singing and dancing in a musical style. Playing someone who is the personification of good is a little difficult.

Charlie Hunnam

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.

Charlie Hunnam

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.

Charlie Hunnam

I think world creation and monster creation and all of that stuff is exciting as a secondary element of storytelling. When it becomes more important than storytelling, I get very nervous, and you sort of lose me a little bit.

Charlie Hunnam

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.

Charlie Hunnam

I'm happy being an actor, it's what I have always wanted to do. I'm just lucky I got to do it so early.

Charlie Hunnam

Right before I got 'Sons of Anarchy,' I actually quit acting for 18 months and didn't read a single script, and I wrote a film. I felt like I needed to do something that I had control over, as an artist, and also just do something where I felt like I had some control over my life, as just a human, out in the world.

Charlie Hunnam

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

Charlie Hunnam

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

Charlie Hunnam

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

Charlie Hunnam

There's a tendency in this Hollywood machinery to take on too much. You end up not being able to give everything you want.

Charlie Hunnam

I always think that the ability to fight and defend oneself is a skill that every man should have but endeavour never to use, you know?

Charlie Hunnam