Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I think Bob Odenkirk is phenomenal. "
Johnny Flynn
Think
Phenomenal
I Think
Related Quotes:
" Loads of verses don't make it into the finished song. "
Johnny Flynn
Song
Finished
Loads
" My dad was an actor, and he always said that work was work; you can't turn your nose up at it. We didn't have much money when I was growing up, and he had this real work ethic, which I inherited. "
Johnny Flynn
Growing Up
Work Ethic
Work
" I feel really lucky that I somehow have blagged my way into loads of different experiences. I find making a film fascinating, I find making a play amazing, and working with my band and scoring things... it's all really cool. I'm just a glutton for experience, really. "
Johnny Flynn
Amazing
Play
Cool
" I'm a big Bob Dylan fan. I'm also a blues geek. "
Johnny Flynn
Blues
Bob Dylan
Big
" I sometimes self-edit when it comes to auditions and go, 'They're not going to cast me, so I'm not going to do it.' "
Johnny Flynn
Going
Me
Sometimes
" My dad was an actor, and he made it all seem quite magical. It felt like a slightly subversive thing, telling stories, when all of my other friends' parents were builders or bank clerks. It's always seemed quite magical to me. "
Johnny Flynn
Always
Friends
Magical
" I did a lot of theater as a young actor in my early twenties, and my first few records really came from writing songs through the rehearsal processes. "
Johnny Flynn
Young
Through
Early
" Weirdly, my dad didn't want me to become an actor, he was always quite resistant to it. He told me as much many times. That just made it more attractive to me. "
Johnny Flynn
More
Actor
Always
" We all have these shades in our nature: it's a spectrum within all of us. "
Johnny Flynn
Nature
Within
Shades
" I'm married to the girl that I first went out with when I was 16. We were on and off for years; now we're married with a kid, so I don't have that many exes. "
Johnny Flynn
First
Now
Off
" A lot of the work I've done has involved playing quite sympathetic characters. "
Johnny Flynn
Playing
Done
Involved
" I'm obsessed with pilgrimages. I love following old routes, imagining the consciousness of those who walked them. "
Johnny Flynn
Consciousness
Obsessed
Old
" I'm not that politically educated. "
Johnny Flynn
Educated
Politically
" If you're trying to do something wholly new, it's hard to fully trust it. But if you use forms that have come before, it lends your music weight and authority. It's also a way to acknowledge that it's not just you who's feeling these things. The emotions are coming through you from a whole history. "
Johnny Flynn
Way
Music
Trust
" I've been cast in a lot of comedies. I've done things like multi-cam sitcoms: you know, 'Seinfeld' type... not as good as 'Seinfeld,' but that kind of thing. I love that stuff. "
Johnny Flynn
Know
Kind
Love
" Our job as actors is to invent the things that bridge ourselves with the characters, so you have to build something if it's not there - you try and learn what makes people behave in a certain way. "
Johnny Flynn
Bridge
Build
Job
" Music always gets bumped until I have some time to get around to it. "
Johnny Flynn
Music
Time
Until
" As a jobbing actor or musician, you have to take any work you can get. "
Johnny Flynn
Musician
Get
Take
" When I first moved to London, there was talk of a folk revival, with annoying names like nu-folk that made me feel slightly ill. "
Johnny Flynn
Talk
Me
Names
" There's something amazing about 'Fawlty Towers' and 'The Office' only being two series. I think, when you really nail it, you don't need to do more than two or three. "
Johnny Flynn
Need
Think
Office
" I've always identified as an actor. That's what I set out to do. "
Johnny Flynn
Out
Set
Identified
" When I was young, I was being pushed, against my will, towards becoming a classical musician. I had music scholarships; I had to play the violin and do orchestra practice and that sort of stuff. That meant I didn't get to do any school plays. I desperately wanted to do that. "
Johnny Flynn
Play
Music
School
" The pop industry is so well-practised at channelling young people's creative energy that I think it gets abused. "
Johnny Flynn
Energy
Creative
Young
" I'm a huge David Hockney fan. "
Johnny Flynn
Huge
David
Fan
" I had a series of jobs in the small fishing village in West Wales where my family lived when I was a teenager. I worked as a fisherman in the day, and then the skipper and his wife ran a small restaurant - she'd cook the fish he caught. "
Johnny Flynn
Fishing
Fish
Family
" The reason I stopped music for a while and concentrated on theatre was that it was more conducive to parenting; having the days free was quite handy. I love them both. I hope I don't have to compromise one for the other. "
Johnny Flynn
Parenting
Hope
Love
" My father was an actor. Both of my older brothers are actors. My younger sister is an actress. For me, that's my job; that's my craft. But then all through school and through drama school, I was gigging and running nights and playing in bands, and I just didn't want to let that go. "
Johnny Flynn
Me
Sister
Father
" Taking someone else's language and fitting it into your own speech - you learn a lot about other people's brains, doing that. "
Johnny Flynn
People
You
Speech
" I like the idea of letting the music do its own work and the stories being more expressionful - if that's a word - in people's imagination. I've just got a thing about people and songs telling you how you should feel. "
Johnny Flynn
Imagination
You
People
" We had no money, my dad was out of work a lot, and we never owned a house. It was very hand-to-mouth. "
Johnny Flynn
Money
Work
House