Top 25 Charlie Heaton Quotes

Prior to doing ‘Marrowbone,’ I’d done three projects, which were all American.

When something steps in from the work you are doing and breaks into your personal life… you feel kind of vulnerable.

I wouldn’t say I do that much extreme sport – maybe one day.

I’m pretty adventurous, I go out a lot.

I think people are interesting enough. People with mental illness, or just real people going through real circumstances in life.

I had done acting at school, and it felt like something that came very naturally to me.

I don’t like watching horror films. I actually don’t. I don’t watch horror films.

I had this crazy trajectory. I went from literally living in a hostel in L.A. at the beginning of 2015 to shooting ‘Stranger Things’ at the end of 2015.

I’m extremely excited and honoured to be given the opportunity to take on the portrayal of Joseph Merrick in the BBC’s adaption of ‘The Elephant Man.’ This is such a special role and a challenge for any actor.

I sometimes think, ‘What am I doing standing on this red carpet?’ It’s hard to believe. You just tell yourself, ‘Just play along and hopefully no one will notice!’

Every time I go somewhere, I’m like, ‘This is where I want to be.’ And then I’m like, ‘But do I want to live here?’

My first job was a commercial for a Swiss insurance company. It was an eight-minute short with a proper story arc, and it ended up getting a spot at Cannes Lions; I was lucky to avoid the commercials where you’re their puppet.

They see you as one thing, and you continue to do that. Do you want to play this really awkward, offbeat outsider? Yeah. I can – but I can do other things. It’s having people trust that you can do other things, or proving it to them.

All my friends have always been older than me.

When I see my old mates they will say, ‘You’re doing well, good on you!’ It kind of blows their minds – it blows my mind too!

I’ve lived out of a suitcase for four years.

Just traveling all the time you gotta keep your teeth clean.

I was born in Leeds, grew up in Bridlington.

If you don’t know, ‘The New Mutants’ is like an ‘X-Men’ spin-off. It was a comic book; Bill Sienkiewicz did it and it was an ‘X-Men’ comic. It’s basically like a separate bunch of mutants.

You can go to school and learn and that works for some people. But I think the best kind of learning is practical and learning on the job.

Sometimes you watch stuff and it’s like, oh God – it’s the obvious cliches of the genre. You’ve got to do better.

I was against getting Beats cause I know they’re kind of really popular and you know, hey’re such a well known brand. But, I ended up buying them and they have changed my life, and the best thing about these is the battery life.

I grew up in Bridlington until I was 16, and I lived with my mum and my sisters. I finished school, got my GCSE’s, and at the time I didn’t know what I wanted to do.

That concept is quite universal, looking for love.

I seem to have the best onscreen mums.