Charlie Hunnam

“You go through this business and you meet people that you bond with, and you get to go make movies with them. It's wonderful. What I've always dreamt of, in my career, is to have a brotherhood of collaborators, and go in and out of working with them. I'm just starting to get that, and it's really lovely.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There's nothing ever monetarily or fame-seeking or any of the other motivations that sometimes go hand-in-hand with this profession. To me, it's just not like that. I'm on a journey of self-discovery and trying to avoid total existential crisis. That's the kind of operating zone that I'm approaching this business from.”

“It's generally more fun playing the villain.”

“I collect... for a long time, I collected Nike Air Max 90s, this specific shoe. And it really is nerdy, because collecting sneakers is not that nerdy, but if you don't wear them, and you keep the box fresh, if you're that fanatical about it, then you leap several categories into super-dork, and that's the way I was.”

“I actually just bought a ranch, and I'm going grow as much of my own foods - I've got thirty chickens, and I'm going to try to live as sustainably as possible.”

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

“I go into the gym and do 75 pullups, 75 dips, 150 squats, 150 pushups, and then 20 minutes of ab work. Done. It takes an hour; I'm in and out. I sweat the whole time.”

“I try desperately to never drink bottled water.”

“I bought a house, and I've been decorating it.”

“I think my favorite show of all time was 'Deadwood.'”

“English people are always surprised I'm English.”

“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.”

“I love hip hop music, I make hip hop music.”

“A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage.”

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

“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?”

“In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet.”

“I grew up in an environment where it was permittable to use violence to solve a problem. But it was not permittable ever to call the police under any circumstances. That was the kind of doctrine of my household. My dad was a career-long criminal, and you weren't calling the police for any reason.”