Quotes from Shawn Ashmore

There are rumors, rumors, rumors. I'm always the last one to know about these things, literally.

I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence but have a vested interested in what happens to them.

You get bored if you do the same thing too much.

Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it.

Why would people spend good money to have my pants?

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

Getting to play superheroes is a pretty good job.

Every day on set, there was something to watch and learn.

I read the comics long before I was ever involved with the films.

So it wasn't actually that bad, it took a couple of weeks to sort of get used to uh, you know, standing around and pretending to have ice shoot out of your hand, but once you got used to that it uh, it was actually not that hard.

Some people talk about screen kisses being strange or uncomfortable. But I think that I got along with Anna well enough that it just happened; it was a fun day of shooting.

Getting to play superheros is a pretty good job.

I never could have planned this, and now I'm in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of where I am in my life, and I'm super happy with how everything's going.

Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions.

As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.

Above and beyond having the social life, to have a core group of people that you work with and spend time with and learn how to work with is a nice thing.

It doesn't get more iconic than Terry Fox.

I'm 25, so I've already gone through what my character Ged goes through, though it's on a general scale because I haven't studied at a wizard's school.

I think Ian McKellen made it all happen, because he used to throw dinner parties and invite everyone over.

No designer has really wowed me yet, I'm into other people's recommendations when it comes to fashion.

I think it's more fun to play a hero with an edge.

Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.

Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it.

Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men characters, which establishes everyone's relationship to one another, sort of like a recap for all those who have forgotten since the last movie.