Quotes from Taron Egerton

I only act in films where I've got an A-lister as my mentor.

This is going to sound a bit weird because she's a lot older than I am, but I've got a thing for Meryl Streep.

I love funk and soul and Motown.

We don't quite have the same comic book culture as America, but I would watch Spider-Man cartoons and X-Men cartoons and watch Bond as much as anyone on the planet.

In school, I always sang in choirs. In fact, I used to do a lot of musicals in the youth theatre that I was a member of between the ages of 16 and 18.

I have absolutely no interest in playing the young male lead around which a story happens.

People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.

I'm not interested in being Franchise Boy.

I'm not interested in going and doing a big, action-adventure romp with nothing to say about being a human being.

I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.

I would have to have some tragedy and romance in my life, but I've actually had a very cushioned, caring upbringing. I'm desperately seeking some edge. Maybe I'll find it one day.

I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.

I can say I'm not doing 'X-Men.' I love the franchise, and I love the people who make them on and off screen.

I don't want to look back at my career and see a string of incredibly commercial projects that don't have much heart. I'm looking for things that have soul.

For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for naturalism.

The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.

I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.

I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.

I did a musical when I was 17, an amateur show, and I loved it.

It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.

I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.

I completely get the drag thing.

In drama school, I entered a singing competition, which I ended up winning, which was great.

I don't want to start getting my little violin out, but travelling across the world constantly and staying in hotels is tough, man.