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" I've always loved film, and it started with Pixar movies. "
Taron Egerton
Started
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" I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant. "
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" The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love. "
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" I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed. "
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" I'd love to do something at Marvel, but I don't think I would do a seven-movie deal. That's a bit too much for me. "
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" I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones. "
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" I love funk and soul and Motown. "
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" I don't want to look back at my career and see a string of incredibly commercial projects that don't have much heart. I'm looking for things that have soul. "
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" I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids' films. "
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" I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety. "
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" Doing the press has become as much of a job as getting in front of the camera. You have to avoid burnout, avoid saying anything stupid, but still come across as yourself. "
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Saying
Stupid
" I applied to drama school when I was about 18 and didn't have any luck anywhere. They basically turned me away and said I had a bit of growing up to do. I went back to Aberystwyth and did my growing up by spending eight months working in Peacocks. "
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" I meet an enormous number of incredible people all the time, people I find very inspiring, and I'm very busy. "
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" I'm not interested in going and doing a big, action-adventure romp with nothing to say about being a human being. "
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" I want to have fun. I'm not interested in being a serious actor, because I think it's boring, and I think we've got plenty of them. "
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" I feel like I've made good friends with people I've worked with, but in terms of lasting inspiration, it is probably Matthew Vaughn who directed 'Kingsman' who's been really supportive, loyal to me, and been a really good person to work with. "
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Me
People
" I would have to have some tragedy and romance in my life, but I've actually had a very cushioned, caring upbringing. I'm desperately seeking some edge. Maybe I'll find it one day. "
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Tragedy
Day
Life
" I don't know if I'm quite grizzly enough. My facial hair is still very thin and patchy. I feel someone who plays Wolverine potentially needs testosterone in abundance. "
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Hair
Still
Enough
" All my friends are Welsh, I speak Welsh, and I feel very Welsh. "
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I Feel
Very
Feel
" I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me. "
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My Own
Me
Opportunities
" I think the idea of participation trophies has gotta be a really, really great thing. Kids are under enough pressure as it is without encouraging them to be the best too early. "
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Pressure
Great
Best
" I don't think I'm going to become Brad Pitt overnight, but I presume if walk down Oxford Street, there is a chance someone might clock me. "
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Me
Clock
Chance
" In school, I always sang in choirs. In fact, I used to do a lot of musicals in the youth theatre that I was a member of between the ages of 16 and 18. "
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School
Fact
" I grew up with Bond. "
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" It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation. "
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" I have absolutely no interest in playing the young male lead around which a story happens. "
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" Franchises mean that you're tied in. That's a lovely feeling of comfort to the whole thing. From a business perspective, it really keeps you current and lets you go and do other smaller, more pedestrian things. "
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Business
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" Part of me looks forward to a time when I have a family and a partner and I take less of my nourishment from social occasions. Having a little unit around me will make my working life easier, because it is quite lonely otherwise. "
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" I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them. "
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" I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting. "
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Fighting
Life