A biography for Jamie Bellhasn’t been written yet.
“I'll tell you what I hate - bands like My Chemical Romance.”
“I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through.”
“I tap dance.”
“I don't think there's a lot of actors out there right now who really know what they're doing at all.”
“Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn't really have any kind of superpower or rely on any kind of technology to help him out of things.”
“Everyone is slowly catching on to this one - and I know everyone says this - but we need to make a little more effort with the environment. Everyone says they turn off their lights, but do they really?”
“We're kind of in a voyeuristic world. We have TV shows that are all about watching people do weird things in houses. People are obsessed with that. There's live coverage of it.”
“I actually don't mind rats at all. I kind of think they're quite cute, but that's just me.”
“I'm no good at the one-liner thing. It's just not me.”
“If you have created an image of yourself at 13 and it is still with you at 17, it needs to be dropped.”
“I never had a father figure so I never missed it.”
“Dancing is like riding a bike.”
“Surfing isn't really in my blood. It's hard to catch a big wave in Billingham.”
“I never really sympathised with Peter Parker.”
“New York is full of crazy people, and I like that.”
“My characters are often without a significant parental figure.”
“Tap dancing is all about the feet; you put your head down and don't really engage with anything but the rhythm in your head.”
“I think everyone still thinks I'm 13.”
“I love the old Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly movies; they're so beautiful to look at. It's such a shame we don't make them anymore. Although, I don't know how you could make tap dancing current and topical.”
“I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.”