Jamie Dornan Quotes

There are lots of good directors I would like to work with; I want to be inspired and challenged by them.

There's a lot of people I would be more than a little overwhelmed by and thrilled to work with.

I would love to just keep working with really great directors who really inspire me.

That is the great pleasure of working with great directors. You get to look at the world through many different prisms. I guess I love talent, whatever form it takes.

I've been able to work on shows with amazing role models, amazing actors, incredible female filmmakers.

I'm fortunate to know a lot of incredibly talented people, and they all want to be a penguin.

It's so funny, all the similarities that we have [with David Copperfield] of being obsessed young people and finding a way to be around the people doing what we want to do.

A lot of my inspiration comes from the movies and TV, watching other people doing things that I one day hope to have the opportunity to do.

Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director.

I'm inspired by the work of those (and sometimes even the people themselves) who strive to inspire.

I know, speaking for myself, no matter what I'm able to do, no matter what book comes out and ends up on paper, I always had something bigger and grander in my head.

When I see films like 'Lagaan' and 'Rang De Basanti,' I feel, 'Why can't I do work like this?' Then you think and realise you need to learn more to make this kind of a film or write this kind of a film. Also, somewhere down the line, you need to be brave.

And I just want to work with good directors and good people.

Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

Like I said, when I was a kid, they inspired me.

I'm essentially the result of other people's imagination. And that's fine. Because of other people's imagination, I've played parts I would never have thought I could do. Still, I've never had a hankering or an ambition for any particular role.

I look up to people who succeed in accomplishing their dreams.

Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.

When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.

I've got something to live for, because I always wanted to be an artist; I always wanted to be famous.

I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.

I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak.

I've been fortunate to work with Alfre Woodard and Jeffrey Wright; people who are artists, have careers, longevity and full lives. That looks good to me.

I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.