Jamie Dornan Quotes

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Jamie Dornan

Profession : Actor

Birth : May 1, 1982

People ask me what Gillian Anderson's like to work with, and I have no idea!

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My wife is a brilliant, hugely understanding person.

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I read a lot about serial killers.

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When I was younger, I thought maybe one day I'd be involved in sport in terms of career.

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My dad was a keen actor when he was young; my auntie is heavily involved in amateur dramatics back in Northern Ireland, and my great aunt was a woman called Greer Garson.

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Although just being employed as an actor is a big thing, I'm not sure I'd be satisfied playing the same character for 30 years; it's not why I want to do this for a living.

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People expect me to be stupid. I'm not saying I'm Stephen Fry, but it is amazing the perception people have.

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I'm still not aware that I'm good looking.

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I'm a fairly worldly guy.

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I grew up in a very liberal place.

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Christian Grey - he isn't a real person. He's a superhero. A myth. He's like Bigfoot! He's unbelievable. He's unattainable. There's no actor in the world who could live up to that.

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I've never read anything set in Belfast that doesn't involve the Troubles or something senseless over a flag.

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Modelling doesn't hold you back in L.A. at all.

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I think my lesson is to back yourself once you've been given a job. Far too often, I've been given a job and then doubted why I'm there.

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I think sometimes actors are drawn to good television because you have more time to sell it, you have more time to shape a character, and to tell a story, and that's really appealing.

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I want to keep an element of myself in every character I play. And maybe that's connected to finding something that you like in every character. Maybe they coincide.

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Every role is physical to a certain extent, but as a viewer, I don't respond well to actors doing more than they need to tell a story.

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Now and again, an actor will blow my mind by doing something really unexpected, like Mickey Rourke or Christopher Walken - you have absolutely no idea what they're going to do, which is really thrilling to watch.

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Nobody sane wants just to be famous.

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There's no easy time to lose a parent.

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