Charlie Heaton

“When I see my old mates they will say, 'You're doing well, good on you!' It kind of blows their minds - it blows my mind too!”

“Prior to doing 'Marrowbone,' I'd done three projects, which were all American.”

“Just traveling all the time you gotta keep your teeth clean.”

“I don't like watching horror films. I actually don't. I don't watch horror films.”

“I was born in Leeds, grew up in Bridlington.”

“My first job was a commercial for a Swiss insurance company. It was an eight-minute short with a proper story arc, and it ended up getting a spot at Cannes Lions; I was lucky to avoid the commercials where you're their puppet.”

“I'm pretty adventurous, I go out a lot.”

“A lot of the things that we do in life are to find connection.”

“I sometimes think, 'What am I doing standing on this red carpet?' It's hard to believe. You just tell yourself, 'Just play along and hopefully no one will notice!'”

“They see you as one thing, and you continue to do that. Do you want to play this really awkward, offbeat outsider? Yeah. I can - but I can do other things. It's having people trust that you can do other things, or proving it to them.”

“You can go to school and learn and that works for some people. But I think the best kind of learning is practical and learning on the job.”

“I think acting's very natural. It comes from a place of honesty, and if someone tries to teach you their way of doing it, that could be quite damaging.”

“I'm not having to grow up in the spotlight as a 14- or 15-year-old.”

“Sometimes you watch stuff and it's like, oh God - it's the obvious cliches of the genre. You've got to do better.”

“I want to work and continue to work - that's all I've ever done.”

“I had done acting at school, and it felt like something that came very naturally to me.”

“I seem to have the best onscreen mums.”

“I'm extremely excited and honoured to be given the opportunity to take on the portrayal of Joseph Merrick in the BBC's adaption of 'The Elephant Man.' This is such a special role and a challenge for any actor.”

“If you don't know, 'The New Mutants' is like an 'X-Men' spin-off. It was a comic book; Bill Sienkiewicz did it and it was an 'X-Men' comic. It's basically like a separate bunch of mutants.”

“All my friends have always been older than me.”