Jack O'Connell Quotes

Inspiration can come from anywhere. But I do love actors. I wish I could drop a bunch of names, but there are just too many.

We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting.

As somebody who has wanted to be an actor who is very young, I can relate to somebody who has been practicing oboe five days a week since they were very young. The physicality of anything a character does is a tremendous gift.

Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid.

Cate Blanchett and Eileen Atkins are definitely among my top five actresses whose work I aspire to.

They asked me to sing - actually, it was Dee Dee, because he had seen me in Sniper and thought I wasn't like anybody else. Everybody else was doing an Iggy or a Mick Jagger.

There are so many talented actors in my contemporaries and my seniors... I seek inspiration from each one of them.

Every generation has to find their own heroes.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.

I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.

You know who a role model for me is? George Ballanchine.

I suppose with any character that you play you always bring your personal experience to it. You always bring people that you know or that you've met and sort of - this is what I do, I mean, I don't know what anyone else does - but people that you know or that you've met that have affected you in certain ways, you bring into it.

In fact, I'll be taking a lot of Cathy Gale with me. I expect that was why I was chosen for the part.

For me personally, I'm mostly focused on writing and acting right now.

We actors are superstitious creatures. We do all the homework, and we put all of the components together, but there's always one key aspect that we're not in charge of, really, and that's magic. You are always on the lookout for where and how that magic is going to ignite.

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

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.

Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play off of him and opposite him.

Before acting, I was always attracted to words, to literature - be they the words of Williams, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare or Moliere.

As an actor, you are always looking for something fresh and interesting and not ordinary.

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.