Callum Turner Quotes

Once I started advancing in my career, I stopped wanting to hide from my reality.

I don't think I am fearless. I am just me.

Oh, I must be ambitious, mustn't I? I'm sure I always have been. I think you can only get away with pretending you're not for so long. After that, it becomes ridiculous.

I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything.

I make mistakes. I say stupid things. I do idiotic things. And, quite frankly, I'm proud of them. Why not make mistakes?

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

I don't want to be no more than what I am.

You have to try things you're really afraid of, even if you pee yourself a little bit.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

The more successful I become, the more I want to remain like me, with my defects and insecurities.

You know what? At this point in my career, at this point in my life... I'm 34 years old; I don't have time to be hiding.

I'm still just a loud-mouth girl from Michigan. I thought I might've grown out of that, but people are always reminding me that I haven't.

I now know that my dreams and my identity are only mutually exclusive if I don't try.

I didn't get jobs because when I went into the audition, I tried to be somebody else. I had to realize, what I can actually bring to the table is unique. No one else has experienced what I've experienced; no one else has walked in my shoes.

When I was a kid, I thought I would be an action-movie hero. I was like, "They're gonna be able to CGI my legs by that point." And then I realized that it was probably better if I stayed a little closer to who I actually am rather than trying to be Bruce Willis.

Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.

Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?

Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. It's often not cool to be the person who puts themselves out there.

I realized that I was a really, really terrible actor. I was like, "I'd better be myself."

Find out who you are and try not to be afraid of it.