Sam Claflin

“Johnny Depp gave me the best advice. He said, 'Keep your feet on the ground. Stay grounded. Remember where you came from.'”

“Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you're going to make it. But there's a part of you that's got to be realistic and say: 'Look, it might not happen to me.'”

“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!'”

“I come from the bottom of the ladder. I'm from Norwich. Not many people seem to know about it.”

“I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.”

“L.A. is my office. I come here for work and work only.”

“I've lived with boys and girls, and I find that boys are generally cleaner than girls. Generally! This is a big generalization!”

“I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself.”

“I purposefully did not want to watch anything I've done so far; I actually don't like looking at my face, so I don't like watching myself on the screen. It's an insecurity thing I have.”

“There will be times when you just can't seem to land an acting job, and you feel like giving up. Don't! The only way to realise that dream is to keep working hard for it.”