Sam Claflin

“I always try to be true to who I am and just be myself.”

“Chris Hemsworth is like my bromance. Seriously, I think I really inherited one of my best friends now. He doesn't know this yet, but I'm going to stalk him if he doesn't.”

“A famous actor told me once - I don't want to name names, I hate that sort of thing - but I was at his house and he said, 'Are you on Twitter?' I said, 'Yes, I am.' And he said, 'There'll be one day when you'll have, like, five friends. And in the same day it'll go to five thousand.'”

“I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.”

“I keep in touch with what's real.”

“One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to treat yourself to say well done for getting the job! However I've not followed on that through yet... I've always wanted a tattoo, something to mark my experience.”

“I used to spend a lot of time at football training, but that time was later spent in amateur acting classes and my local youth theatre, in plays at school and after-school clubs. That filled the void.”

“When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and my first ever show was 'Jesus Christ Superstar.' Everyone's familiar with it. I played priest number 3 and sang so out of tune that it's not even funny.”

“חייתי עם בנים ועם בנות, וגיליתי שבנים בדרך כלל נקיים יותר מבנות.”

“אני צריך להוכיח את עצמי בהרבה דרכים – כשחקן, כאדם, כמי שיכול להתמודד עם לחץ.”

“הכנס את עצמך לכל מבחן בד שאתה יכול. אפילו לתפקידים קטנים יותר, לעולם לא תדע מתי מישהו עשוי להמליץ עליך לתפקיד גדול יותר.”

“לוס אנג'לס היא המשרד שלי. אני בא לכאן לעבודה ולעבודה בלבד.”

“I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.”

“I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.”

“I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.”

“I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.”

“My parents don't have any showbusiness links. They are so far away from it.”

“Get yourself into every audition that you can. Even in those for smaller roles, you'll never know when someone may recommend you for a bigger one.”

“I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.”

“In England, when we're at drama school, we spend a lot of time learning the craft from playwrights and stage actors, who are very well trained in the basics of acting because they need to get it right the first time - you can't have second or third takes when you're in front of a live audience, unlike in film.”