Jamie Dornan Quotes

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Jamie Dornan

Profession : Actor

Birth : May 1, 1982

It's funny when you know you're playing two characters and you're aware of how you have to play each one into your performance of the other. You're constantly at the back of your mind thinking and it all gets a bit confusing.

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It's not like I cleaned up with girls. I always looked young and I was very small; I hated being 'cute.'

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They do very classy, sexy television in the U.S. - and they pay a lot more, so there's always that draw!

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It's funny how you get a bit older and become more accepting of things. When you're in your twenties, you're skeptical of everything. I definitely felt like that.

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Addiction is a terrible thing.

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One of my favorite things about my life is that I have the same group of friends that I grew up with. I love them so dearly, and we give each other a hard time.

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You'd be hard-pressed to find an actor who isn't a sex symbol somewhere.

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I've never felt massively satisfied from standing there while someone takes my photograph. It's never given me a thrill.

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I very much feel like I'm part of the makeup of 'Once Upon a Time.'

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Love from the fans is flattering. That's what makes the show. They are so essential to everything involved with 'Once Upon a Time.'

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There are so many ways to make a living that don't involve hiding in bushes opposite houses of 18-year-old girls with a camera in your hand.

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I don't like my physique. Who does?

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I was a skinny guy growing up, and I still feel like that same skinny kid.

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I'd been auditioning for parts for years. I never got any better at it. I'm crap at auditions. I know there are people who can walk into those rooms and make those lines sing on the page and get the job immediately. I wasn't one of them. I'm still not one of them.

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I didn't do particularly well with girls at school. I was very shy. I'm not saying that was the only reason I didn't do well with them, but I just didn't.

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I love fatherhood.

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It's a strange environment, being hounded. The paparazzi are cretins.

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I could eat 10 packs of Hula Hoops a day and not think about it.

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If you are a skinny, baby-faced teenager, the last thing you want to hear is that you're cute.

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I like playing characters who are fractured, broken. I find that more relatable, for some reason. I don't feel that I'm like that myself by nature, but there's just something that you can really grab hold of if people have a darkness in them, I think.

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