Jack Lowden

“I hate chilling. I hate even the notion of chilling. I like doing stuff.”

“Since I was 21, I have not been able to sleep past 9 A.M.; I just want to get up and do something.”

“Everybody knows the story of The Smiths. You can still go and see Morrissey.”

“If you speak to any soldier, even now, they say they are fighting for their friends. It always ends up that they're fighting for the man next to them.”

“I grew up on stages. Not standing outside the 'Royal Court Theatre' wistfully, but with enthusiastic people from the community.”

“I want to play in as many theatres as possible, work with as many brilliant people as possible, but definitely do a new play.”

“One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.”

“I had the benefit of there being no stigma attached to the arts. My brother's a ballet dancer, and he never came up against anything.”