Quotes by Charlie Hunnam

About Charlie Hunnam:

Charles Matthew is an English actor and screenwriter. He is known for his roles as Jackson "Jax" Teller in the FX drama series Sons of Anarchy (2008–14), Nathan Maloney in the Channel 4 drama Queer as Folk (1999–2000), Lloyd Haythe in the Fox comedy series Undeclared (2001–02), the title role in Nicholas Nickleby (2002), Pete Dunham in Green Street Hooligans (2005), and Raleigh Becket in Pacific Rim (2013).
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I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn't go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film...

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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....

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So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity.

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I realise few people get to live the life they always wanted, but I'm so neurotic, I don't really think about it. I'm too busy thinking, 'I hope I don't screw up my next scene.'

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Right before I got 'Sons of Anarchy,' I actually quit acting for 18 months and didn't read a single script, and I wrote a film. I felt like I needed to do something that I had control over, as an artist, and also just do something where I felt like I...

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Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.

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Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.

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

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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.

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It's generally more fun playing the villain.

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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.

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It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.

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

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I find aspects of the industry tedious and hard to manage.

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I watch these actors who when you go to buy a pint of milk you see them smiling on the cover of 20 magazines. Then when you see them in a film it's hard to believe the character because you just see them everywhere.

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I'm currently doing Undeclared an American TV show set in a college. It just got aired and got massive ratings so hopefully that'll screen in the UK soon.

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There are definitely worse people to be compared with. I think Brad Pitt makes interesting decisions.

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

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I get invited to literally every single movie premiere that's going on.

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They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.

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Author Bio

  • NameCharlie Hunnam
  • DescriptionEnglish actor and screenwriter
  • AliasesCharles Matthew Hunnam
  • BornApril 10, 1980
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor; Screenwriter