Quotes by Will Poulter - Page 2

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.
Will Poulter / Actor
Shooting
Accent
Exactly What
Recordings
Time Period
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There's no other industry in the world where you could spend $100m as frivolously as they do in the film industry. Think about how much good you could do with $100m... it can be spent in 20 minutes on a movie.
Will Poulter / Actor
Film Industry
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It's difficult to tell whether people are looking at you because they recognise you from your work or just because you're 6 ft. 3 in. and have the eyebrows of Satan. It's difficult to distinguish between the two.
Will Poulter / Actor
Eyebrows
Recognise
Satan
Work Your People
Distinguish
Just Because
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I hate going into the audition room. I find it the most nerve-wracking, inhumane experience, and I think it's such an inhospitable environment to give an honest account of the character and, I guess, your ability.
Will Poulter / Actor
Environment
Honest
Inhumane
Account
Audition
Guess
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High school was interesting. For the most part, I quite enjoyed it. But everyone is trying to find their footing, and school can be a tough environment. Kids can be cruel to each other. It's quite unforgiving at times.
Will Poulter / Actor
Unforgiving
Cruel
Footing
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Themes of redemption, temptation, and faith don't necessarily apply directly to religion. A lot of people find faith in their lives outside of God and still deal with notions of temptation and redemption that aren't religious.
Will Poulter / Actor
God
Religion
Faith
Redemption
Religious
Temptation
God Faith Religion
Faith Religion People
God Religion People
God Faith People
Lot
Apply
Find
Deal
Directly
Still
Necessarily
Notions
Outside
Themes
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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.
Will Poulter / Actor
Public Image
Range
Leading Man
Reflects
Transitional
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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.
Will Poulter / Actor
Comedy
Drama
Growing Up
Huge
Leonardo
Phoenix
Fan
Brilliantly
Dicaprio
Huge Fan
Leonardo Dicaprio
Matt
Matt Damon
Robin
Transform
Williams
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What's hilarious is people taking photos and they think you don't know. It's the funniest thing I've ever seen. Like taking a picture of their mate for example but about three foot wide of their face - and the flash is on half the time!
Will Poulter / Actor
Hilarious
Flash
Wide
Time Face People
Foot
For Example
Funniest
Funniest Thing
Half The Time
Mate
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Working with people like Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis is such a blessing because I've watched them a great deal. I grew up with 'Friends' and always aspired to work with someone from that cast. Jason is just such an amazing comedian.
Will Poulter / Actor
Blessing
Comedian
Jason
Jennifer
Work Great Amazing
Aspired
Great Deal
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I've always found that I have to audition, but that's a process that I kind of enjoy. I enjoy the challenge, and 'We're The Millers' was the same. It was a long audition process that I had to go through, but I enjoyed the challenge of that.
Will Poulter / Actor
Enjoyed
Process
Audition
Challenge
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Seeing the actual 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe', I absolutely loved it. It became one of my favourite films. It was a real Christmas classic, and it was one of the most popular films ever in British history.
Will Poulter / Actor
Christmas
Classic
Favourite
Wardrobe
Witch
Actual
Lion
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Drama is what I'm really obsessed by. It's what gets me up in the morning, what I live for. But I'll always have a love for comedy because it was my first opportunity, and I associate it with my best friends, who I made during 'School of Comedy'.
Will Poulter / Actor
Associate
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I feel like there's a dangerous culture among young actors of going to posey joints and socialising - not doing hard work. I don't want to go and hang out in Soho House L.A. That's literally my worst nightmare. I'd rather be at home reading scripts.
Will Poulter / Actor
Hard Work
Joints
Nightmare
Scripts
Young Actors
Work Home Hard Work
Hang
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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.
Will Poulter / Actor
Zero
Battered
Disturbed
Shooting
Genuinely
Emotionally
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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 / Actor
Crisis
Life Crisis
Mid Life Crisis
Private Life
Life Mind Me
Desk
Suppose
Mid-Life
Prematurely
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It may sound strange to say it of someone so famous, but I think Leonardo DiCaprio is underrated, particularly from an awards perspective. He is a very versatile actor. He started very young, and 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape?' is one of my favourite films.
Will Poulter / Actor
Awards
Favourite
Leonardo
Underrated
Versatile
Dicaprio
Gilbert
Grape
Leonardo Dicaprio
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I think I'm slightly OCD. I'll be desperate to get a part, but as soon as I do, the sense of pride wears off almost immediately, and fear of not doing a good job sets in. I'll think, 'This is a dream come true,' and then, 'It's not OK until I get a good review.'
Will Poulter / Actor
Desperate
Good Job
Pride
Immediately
Review
Sets
Wears
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I actually found 'We're the Millers' one of the toughest, if I'm honest, least fun experiences of my life, which is weird. It was such a huge opportunity for me to work with the people I worked with and I feel grateful to be a part of that, but it kind of messed me up.
Will Poulter / Actor
Life Work Opportunity
Huge Opportunity
Messed
Toughest
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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?
Will Poulter / Actor
Dance
Able
Enough
Problem
Rapper
Wish
Living
Sure
Oh
Talented
Oh God
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I wasn't good at anything at school, and acting was the only thing that I really loved doing and was interested in. It was kind of like my only option. For me to get opportunities in acting is so fortunate. I found something I loved doing and wasn't terrible at; it was quite nice.
Will Poulter / Actor
Good Me School
Option
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I think we have a responsibility to shape the zeitgeist with the movies we put out there. Because 'After Earth' isn't going to do it. 'The Expendables 3' isn't going to do it. You could make one million amazing films for the amount of money they spend on those films. I get frustrated.
Will Poulter / Actor
Frustrated
Zeitgeist
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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.
Will Poulter / Actor
Admire
Aspire
Chameleon
Fortunate
Range
Versatility
Establish
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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.
Will Poulter / Actor
Best Friend
Sister
Cool
Brother
Doubt
East
Genius
Great Person
London
Mature
Moved
Wicked
Little
Best Great Always
Person
Been
Friend
Without
Talented
Far
Off
Well
Points
She
Super
Though
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I feel really blessed that I found what I love doing and was able to make it a living from such a young age. I realize that I'm really fortunate. I didn't train; I kind of got lucky. And I remember that every day. I think I have to remind myself of that to really, fully appreciate life now.
Will Poulter / Actor
Young Age
Life Love Age
Remind
Such A Young Age
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I hate the school of thought that says work is work and that you have to be unhappy at work because that's what work is. I totally respect the fact that not everyone has the choices that I have, and that some people have to work jobs that they don't like because they don't have any other options.
Will Poulter / Actor
Unhappy
Options
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I'd never read 'Prince Caspian'. I watched it and loved that film. Everybody was talking about its lack of success; its relative success in comparison to the other film. It's a great film. It deserved to do a lot better than it did. It's very difficult to make a film that will match up to the first.
Will Poulter / Actor
Comparison
Great Film
Relative
Deserved
Match
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I think it reaffirmed something that I believed in and conceptually always had faith in which was that you're most effective when you work as a team. I love that about filmmaking. I stopped playing team sports at 15-16 because of acting. I think I find a kind of new team sport in filmmaking in a way.
Will Poulter / Actor
Filmmaking
Love Faith Work
Effective
Team Sport
Team Sports
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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'.
Will Poulter / Actor
Teacher
Class
Middle
Mum
Only Child
Said
Yeah
Child
Boy
Around
Asked
Meant
Chair
William
Walk
Put
Room
Well
She
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It was incredibly daunting for me to go from 'Son Of Rambow' to 'Narnia' because of the natural jump that there is that is dictated by budget, and the number of people working on it. Even though a lot more people saw 'Son Of Rambow' than we expected, a lot more people were always going to go and see 'Narnia'.
Will Poulter / Actor
Always Me People
Me People Son
Budget
Daunting
Dictated
Jump
More People
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I barely read. I'm not a good reader at all. Rather than reading, I used to sit in front of the TV and watch black-and-white cowboy movies. I'm a painfully slow reader. It's really bad as an actor, because you have to read a lot of scripts. It takes me like an average of three hours to read a script, which is pretty poor.
Will Poulter / Actor
Black And White
Cowboy
Reading
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I think the one thing that I've experienced with American films is just that the size tends to be so much bigger, the budgets have been bigger, the size of the sets have been bigger, the number of people working on them is bigger, but that's not to say that I haven't been able to get close to people or develop good relationships.
Will Poulter / Actor
Budgets
Size
Good People American
Experienced
Good Relationships
Sets
Tends
The One Thing
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Kissing scenes are never romantic or sexy, they're actually super technical, like, "Move your head, you're blocking her light," or, "Stop looking like an idiot when you kiss her." You do it again and again because of the camera angles and takes and whatnot. So by the end of it, it's not even kissing. All the anything is totally drained out of it.
Will Poulter / Actor
Block
Moving
Sexy
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