Harry Lloyd Quotes

I lost my passion for work. No, that's a negative statement. I just had a bigger passion for something else, for my son, and growing up with him.

I kind of knew it wasn't going to be until my 30s that I really hit my stride as an actor.

I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever.

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

I finished up my graduate degree in quantum mechanics, but underwent a bit of a personal crisis, recognizing that I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life. It was too abstract, too far removed from human concerns.

Part of me, even when I was trying to get acting jobs, I was still kind of thinking, 'Oh I should do something else with my life.'

After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn't want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn't think I would stop acting, but I didn't want to be seen.

And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.

I love acting, but being an actor for hire only serves so much, and then you want to fill your well up again and be charged by something else.

When I was really little, I wanted to be a taxi driver or a bus driver; I loved the fact that I could play my own music when I wanted. But I can't imagine actually doing that now; I think I'd get bored.

Life changed at 40 for me, as predicted by my acting teacher when I was leaving college. I became more hirable and more interesting... I'm not sure why.

I'm starting to think about my life, thinking about where I'm going to be in three years time: who I'm going to be with, where I'm going to be situated myself.

I see myself as a recovering journalist.

Your path at 22 will not necessarily be your path at 32 or 42.

I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done.

I think everyone goes through chapters in their life and there was a time when I wasn't feeling terribly positive about what I was contributing to film, or wasn't feeling as if I was going in the direction I wanted and I re-evaluated what I was doing.

My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.

I know a lot of people at some point in their business careers decide they'll just cash in and do something else, but for some reason, I've never had that feeling.

I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing comedy for 15 to 20 years, and suddenly along came the opportunity to do this beautiful film. It was so emotional to me. I loved it. I don't think it was a good career move, but I have no regrets about doing it.

A lot of actors think they can't be happy without the acting... But I think I couldn't be happy with it anymore.

I worked in an insurance office for six years, and it was there that I just woke up one day and realised there was something massively lacking in my life, and a non-contributory pension and a subsidised canteen could not fill it.

Personally, my twenties were a complete waste of time. Professionally, I hope some good came of them.

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.

My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.

I've always wondered, what am I going to do that's important with these stupid jokes that I tell.