Quotes from Jamie Bell

I sympathize with every kitchen porter.

I have, I think, eight mentors. It's crazy, but I need them. They are all really important to me. They keep me grounded and advise me.

The reason I do small, independent movies is because I want to keep my soul intact and maintain some kind of integrity within this industry.

I think as English people, we don't want to be reminded that at one point we ruled three-quarters of the globe, and now we're a very small country that doesn't own three-quarters of the globe.

You don't miss what you never had.

I never had a father figure so I never missed it.

I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things.

It must be hard to be a female in a David Mackenzie movie. I feel like women in his films are portrayed a certain way - like broken people.

I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through.

Inner demons? Got none of them.

I'm a hard-mouthed northeastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England.

Wherever the good work is I'll go.

I think I have much more appreciation for directing and movies overall versus a performance or an actor. Their body of work is more interesting.

I'm very good at meeting people, very outgoing.