Quotes by James Norton - Page 1

I do a mean mouth trumpet.
James Norton / Film Actor
Trumpet
Mouth
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I had the acting bug from a very early age.
James Norton / Film Actor
Acting
Bug
Early
Early Age
Very Early Age
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'Happy Valley' has really changed things for me.
James Norton / Film Actor
Me Happy Things
Valley
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I grew up in North Yorkshire, but now London is home.
James Norton / Film Actor
London
Yorkshire
North
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When I was playing a psychopath in 'Happy Valley,' it was really weird.
James Norton / Film Actor
Weird
Valley
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You don't want a character who sits on an even playing field the whole time.
James Norton / Film Actor
Playing Field
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Half of what creates psychopaths is genetic, but the other half is conditioning.
James Norton / Film Actor
Conditioning
Creates
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I wanted to do a degree in something I was interested in before going into acting.
James Norton / Film Actor
Acting
Interested
Degree
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We live in secular world now, but most of our art and culture is rooted in religion.
James Norton / Film Actor
Rooted
Secular
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Being in a person's head for five months, where they're so hateful, is kind of exhausting.
James Norton / Film Actor
Exhausting
Hateful
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I grew up in the countryside, so I had quite a feral life up until the age of about fourteen.
James Norton / Film Actor
Countryside
Fourteen
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For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself.
James Norton / Film Actor
Privilege
Distant
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I love good stories; you have to have a good plot - characters which intertwine with a good plot.
James Norton / Film Actor
Plot
Stories
Good Stories
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I'm quite a smiley guy, I have my moments, but I think I'm generally of a relatively optimistic nature.
James Norton / Film Actor
Optimistic
Guy
Moments
Thinking
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I crashed my bicycle on the way to my first date with my ex-girlfriend and was cautioned by the police.
James Norton / Film Actor
Bicycle
Date
Crashed
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As an actor, I think most people have a tendency to want to demonstrate that they can act, they can emote.
James Norton / Film Actor
Actors
People
Thinking
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You really try to work the character out and spend time in the headspace of the character. That's what I did.
James Norton / Film Actor
Character
Spend Time
Trying
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When I got into drama school, that's when I knew that I could safely say that I wanted to be a professional actor.
James Norton / Film Actor
Drama School
Safely
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Being in Russia filming War & Peace...filming War & Peace alone is an extraordinary experience, but to be out there was just magical.
James Norton / Film Actor
War
Peace War
Russia
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If you're constantly stepping outside of the character and judging them, you'll never really be able to fully engage because you'll always be slightly cynical.
James Norton / Film Actor
Character
Cynical
Judging
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If it's a sunny day, I get this weird guilt if I'm not making the most of it, so I'll walk or go for a swim or get on my bike, or I'll go to the Heath, just have a reason to get out.
James Norton / Film Actor
Bike
Guilt
Reason
Sunny
Swim
Weird
Heath
Walk
Making
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I love, when I'm on holiday in cities, going into church and feeling that reverence and that kind of automatic respect: the sort of magic which exists in those kind of religious temples.
James Norton / Film Actor
Church
Cities
Holiday
Magic
Reverence
Temples
Automatic
Exists
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Kids used to come round to my house, and I'd force them to do a play in the bay windows of my house and get all the mums and dads to sit and watch. I'd write the programme, write the play and be the star.
James Norton / Film Actor
Bay
Dads
Round
Programme
Windows
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For a long time I had a vintage stall, where I sold men's vintage clothing, and my girlfriend was convinced it was just to do with a problem I had where I just couldn't stop buying senseless clothes, even if they didn't fit me.
James Norton / Film Actor
Buying
Clothes
Convinced
Long Time
Vintage
Time Men Me
Time Men Long
Senseless
Sold
Stall
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It takes a lot of courage, when everyone is asking you what you want to do, if you say that you want to be a musician or an actor; people can be very condescending and say, 'Oh, that's so sweet, good luck with that!' It can be very frustrating.
James Norton / Film Actor
Courage
Condescending
Frustrating
Good Luck
Luck
Musician
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I think the mistake lots of people make when it comes to a psychopath is that they completely write off their actions as cruel, callous and completely calculated, but actually, the truth is that they have interests and reasons behind their actions.
James Norton / Film Actor
Callous
Mistake
Truth Is
Actions
Lots
Calculated
Cruel
Interests
Reasons
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If you compare the violence in 'Happy Valley' to the violence in something like 'Game of Thrones,' it's nothing. But it is shocking because it's so real and grounded. The characters could live next door to you - they're not in a remote fantasy world.
James Norton / Film Actor
Compare
Fantasy
Grounded
Shocking
Fantasy World
Game Of Thrones
Next Door
Remote
Valley
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Every day, every scene, you were like, "My god. I'm doing a scene with Brian Cox today and then I'm onto a scene with Stephen Rea." For us young actors, I think we were all very, very star-struck and impressed by the caliber of everyone who came out.
James Norton / Film Actor
Actors
Stars
Thinking
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As far as people I'd like to work with, the list is endless. I think to work with Steve McQueen would be amazing, and then some of the U.K. talent we have: Eddie Marsan, Olivia Colman, both of whom I have met and admired for a long time. We're very blessed in this country; there is so much talent for people to work with and learn from.
James Norton / Film Actor
Blessed
Long Time
Mcqueen
Olivia
Talent
Time Work Amazing
Admired
Eddie
Work Time Amazing
List
Met
Steve
Whom
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The Russians were all really accommodating, and that made it really special. To be allowed in Catherine's Summer Palace...Lily [James] and I have this scene where we fall in love and we waltz up and down this enormous gold hall with thousands of candles and a live orchestra and 300 Russian extras. To do those scenes in situ really meant it was a once-in-a-lifetime job.
James Norton / Film Actor
Jobs
Falling In Love
Summer
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There's so much going on in Andrei [Bolkonsky]. He's wrangling with these big existential conundrums, and he tries out different routes to fulfillment. He tries falling in love, that doesn't work. He goes to war and searches for military glory, that doesn't work. He does the quiet life of a farmer. He's always active. That's what I loved about him, he's always looking, searching. He's really inquisitive.
James Norton / Film Actor
War
Falling In Love
Military
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