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" I just like the prospect of playing lots of different types of characters and just the opportunity to challenge yourself, do something different and surprise people. "

Will Poulter

Opportunity

Challenge

People

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" Hollywood has never been a goal, necessarily - there was no 'Conquer America' game plan for me. "

Will Poulter

Conquer

Plan

" I love student life, but I also loved, from a young age, being in a working environment where you are treated as an adult. "

" One of the challenges obviously with doing an accent from a time period early in history is that there aren't recordings. You would never really get the opportunity to hear exactly what you were shooting for. "

" The transitional period is tough. You can find yourself too old to play high school roles but too young to play the leading man. You have to be quite smart about how you present yourself. Your public image reflects your range. "

" I love food. I think arguably the thing I'm best at in life is eating food, which is not the best talent in the world, but it's a talent. "

" Sometimes I've been more emotionally disturbed by the experience of shooting a comedy than a drama. After 'We're the Millers', I think playing this battered loser who's confidence was at zero for 90 percent of the movie, I did genuinely feel that way. "

" Leonardo DiCaprio I find very inspiring... He's my idol. I absolutely love Leonardo DiCaprio. Christian Bale, obviously, being a British actor and going from 'Empire of the Sun.' Now he's Batman. "

" I don't really want to play Will Poulter for the rest of my life, because that's boring. "

" I was lucky that I had friends who have maintained a very regular attitude with me and haven't changed how they interact with me. "

Will Poulter

Attitude

Lucky

" I'll just say it: I'm not the sharpest tool in the box. Being forced to go back to school is still a fear of mine. "

Will Poulter

Say

School

" If I could be something other than an actor, I'd be a chef; I've got a big interest in food. I'm a proper fan boy. "

" I just felt that I might to go to university and get some real life. It wasn't stimulating in the same way. I loved being at Bristol, but I missed the thrill of being on set. "

" I am very much a city boy, and I really don't get out into the countryside or the wilderness that much at all. "

" I am the black sheep of my family. They are all super talented and intelligent and got proper jobs. Most of my family is in medicine, actually. They are all too clever to be doing what I do. "

" Al Pacino never looks like he's being filmed. "

" I've not really been let down by anyone I've admired and then worked with. "

" Confidence is the greatest gift for an actor. "

" I look up to Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon. I'm a huge fan of their work. I also like actors who really transform themselves, like Joaquin Phoenix. And I loved Robin Williams growing up. He does comedy and drama so brilliantly. "

" I think what makes Narnia a magical place is that it offers escapism - escapism from a world that is so different from the reality known by the characters and the reality known by the fans. "

" My brother's my best friend, without a doubt. Me and my big sister get along so well. She moved to East London, though, so points off, but she's wicked. And then my little sister is a little genius. She's super talented and such a great person, always been far more mature and cool than me. "

" I'm fortunate enough to have had an opportunity to do a range of stuff, and the thing I admire most in actors is versatility, those that morph and change, those kind of chameleon actors who are unrecognisable from one job to another. That's something that I aspire to establish myself. "

" My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.' Mum was like, 'Yeah, that's my boy'. "

" My problem is I'm not talented enough to do everything, but I want to do everything. I'm like, 'Oh God, I wish I could dance! Oh God, I wish I could rap!' I can't be a rapper, and I'm sure as hell not going to be able to dance for a living, but I want to do it all, you know? "

" I didn't want to be behind a desk. I didn't want to do a normal job. I had made my mind up. I became despondent prematurely. I had my mid-life crisis when I was 16. I suppose I'd agree with that. But acting has helped me develop a lot in my private life. "

Will Poulter

Crisis

Acting

" Cara Delevingne and I took an eyebrow selfie. We both have prominent eyebrows, but hers are much better than mine. Maybe we should do a swap. "