Quotes from Jamie Dornan

I feel pretty secure about who I am.

I could eat 10 packs of Hula Hoops a day and not think about it.

I'd been auditioning for parts for years. I never got any better at it. I'm crap at auditions. I know there are people who can walk into those rooms and make those lines sing on the page and get the job immediately. I wasn't one of them. I'm still not one of them.

It's a strange environment, being hounded. The paparazzi are cretins.

There's no easy time to lose a parent.

I read a lot about serial killers.

Although just being employed as an actor is a big thing, I'm not sure I'd be satisfied playing the same character for 30 years; it's not why I want to do this for a living.

I don't like my physique. Who does?

When I think of sex symbols, I think of posters my two sisters had on their bedroom walls.

I don't really have choices in the material I get. So I have to make the choices in the way I play the characters.

I'm still not aware that I'm good looking.

I defy anyone to watch interviews with Ted Bundy and not be taken by him. He was very handsome and charming and extremely intelligent and, you know, that can exist.

They do very classy, sexy television in the U.S. - and they pay a lot more, so there's always that draw!

I feel very settled. I'm not running in and out of clubs at 5 A.M. anymore.

Everyone likes a bit of competition.

It's funny when you know you're playing two characters and you're aware of how you have to play each one into your performance of the other. You're constantly at the back of your mind thinking and it all gets a bit confusing.

I want to keep an element of myself in every character I play. And maybe that's connected to finding something that you like in every character. Maybe they coincide.

I can't really do the running on hard ground that I used to do. Instead I go swimming as often as possible.

You'd be hard-pressed to find an actor who isn't a sex symbol somewhere.

A doctor once told me I have abnormal levels of adrenaline in my system.

Every actor craves choice.

What kid doesn't want to pretend they're James Bond?

You want roles that challenge you and that scare you a little and where you can really discover something, even about yourself, that maybe you didn't understand.

If you are a skinny, baby-faced teenager, the last thing you want to hear is that you're cute.