68+ Douglas Booth Quotes On Culture, Evangelism And Slavery

Douglas Booth is a British actor who has appeared in films such as Great Expectations, Noah, and Love, Rosie. He has also starred in television shows such as The Pillars of the Earth and The Riot Club. He is currently starring in the historical drama series, Britannia. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Douglas Booth on life, culture, love.

Top 10 Douglas Booth Quotes

1. What is life unless you're having a good time? I don't really have a plan; I just try to dip my toes in different ponds.
2. As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.
3. I've always had a social awareness. My favorite channel on TV is BBC News 24. For a while, I had to have it on repeat in my house. I've always been interested in what's going on in the world.
4. The most romantic things are very small, kind gestures from people you love.
5. On a Friday night, I like to go out because my friends, who have been working normal hours, just want to let go after a stressful week at work.
6. We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press.
7. The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones.
8. I grew up in London, and that's where I spend most of my time. Unless I have a really good reason not to be, I'll always be in London.
9. I like to travel, but honestly I really like to just be at home in London and spend time with my friends.
10. I don't think I've reached perfection by any stretch of the imagination, but maybe someday I'll become a perfectionist.

Douglas Booth Short Quotes

• I think it's more important to seek the truth than to try and be perfect, to be honest.
• I think we can't feed the amount of people that are on this planet the way we are doing it.
• More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.
• Sometimes things are nothing on paper, but a genius director turns it into something amazing.
• Obviously, you never shoot the scenes of a film in order or only very rarely.
• Each character you play has its own set of characteristics, for want of a better word.
• I dreamt of being an actor ever since I was young.

Douglas Booth Quotes About Life

I had friends who ran off to become ski instructors or worked in cool bars, and I often envied them, but I know I'd quickly become bored with that kind of life. I always need to push myself. — Douglas Booth

Sometimes a script comes along that really makes you sit up and pay attention... 'Life at These Speeds' has an emotional intensity that really kicked me in the guts. — Douglas Booth

I love the challenge of playing characters forced on life-changing emotional journeys. To work on a project with Billy Crudup and Sam Rockwell is just a dream come true. — Douglas Booth

It's better to think of life as a proper journey with a beginning and an end. Maybe, I can settle for being immortalised on screen. — Douglas Booth

Douglas Booth Quotes About Love

I love movies. That's still my favorite form of escape, and I usually end up going alone. I love to go and sit in the theater by myself, no distractions. — Douglas Booth

I got cast in a school play and I fell in love with that. I felt comfortable on stage and found out it was a brilliant way of expressing myself and I was happy and I could do it. — Douglas Booth

I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I took up the trumpet and just did that every day and practiced that. — Douglas Booth

I'd love to work with Paul Thomas Anderson or Quentin Tarantino, but these are dreams I don't need to rush to achieve. I'll be ready to make those movies when I'm ready to make those movies and they're ready to make them with me, if they ever want to. — Douglas Booth

Being blinded by young love. I remember the feeling, when I first fell in love - you don't see the world the same way that other people see it. You don't see the same boundaries. — Douglas Booth

I fell in love at 14 and I remember that mad, tense feeling and all the mad things you do for the person - all those extremes and all the stuff you don't mind putting up with. — Douglas Booth

I live by myself, which I love. In this industry, you're so often surrounded by people and busy and talking to people. It's kind of lovely when you get home to just chill out. — Douglas Booth

I love to dance and dance all night long. — Douglas Booth

Douglas Booth Famous Quotes And Sayings

I like to wake up late, around 11 A.M., especially if I have been out the night before. Then I go to brunch with either my friends or my girlfriend. I then like to just chill out: read the papers, read some scripts and then take it very easy. If it's sunny, I go for a walk with my dog, Niles, in the countryside. — Douglas Booth

I want to be challenged, I want to keep challenging myself - whether or not it's changing yourself physically or just pushing yourself to a certain extreme. I get bored quite easily so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself. — Douglas Booth

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I am dyslexic, so I really struggled in school. I knew I was never going to sit behind a desk or do something involving numbers. — Douglas Booth

The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones, but it's not like working a 9-5 job and only having two or three weeks off a year. I may not have seen my girlfriend for two or three months, but then we can spend two or three months together solidly. — Douglas Booth

With our job, you often meet people through work. I've had two long-term relationships, from 14 to 18 and 19 to 21. One I met at school and the other I met on a job so who knows where I'll meet the next person. — Douglas Booth

I like to cook Vietnamese pho or vegetarian curries. I need to cook more but I need somebody to cook with. — Douglas Booth

I would be the last person on earth to complain about what I do - I feel very fortunate and I know there are a million jobs in the world that are much, much harder - but it's not always an easy or glamorous thing to do, that's for sure. — Douglas Booth

I love Leonardo DiCaprio. He just makes really great films with great directors. He has great relationships with directors but also has a great social awareness. I think he balances his work with his responsibilities to his world, the environment, things like that very well. I'm very impressed by him and I admire him a lot. And other actors like Joaquin Phoenix, I just look at him and marvel at his unexpectedness, just his work really. — Douglas Booth

Have you seen Cowspiracy? It takes a lot more land to feed a meat eater than to feed a vegan or a vegetarian. It's something I'd love to get into but it's very hard to persuade people to stop things they've been doing for a long time. So maybe it needs to start with the next generation. Everyone needs to raise their children with a bit more responsibility. — Douglas Booth

It's really important to take time for yourself because if you don't know what it is like to be a real person and spend time with a sense of normality, how can you play normal people in films? — Douglas Booth

Some people can very easily switch off and be guilt free, not that what I'm doing is about guilt, but they can completely disconnect and not care because it doesn't affect them. I've always really cared about what happens and felt a certain responsibility. — Douglas Booth

I suppose to a certain degree. London's my favorite place on the planet and the reason for that is its fantastic diversity. — Douglas Booth

I've spent a lot of my teenage years working on sets. I've missed out on more than just playing rugby, but I think I've managed to keep my feet on the ground and keep my friends around me. — Douglas Booth

When I do go to L.A., it is usually for a reason - to meet with a director or something - but I'm always so happy to go back to London. — Douglas Booth

The script's always important, but there are some things that have come out in the past year that, when we read them, everyone was like, "Oh my god, this is going to be the next best thing!" Then the movie falls completely flat on its face. — Douglas Booth

[London is] one of the best cities in the world. There is just so much culture there and so much history and so much diversity. It's just a perfect place to grow up. I studied at the Guildhall every Saturday so I'd always be in town every weekend doing that. I was kind of a city boy really. — Douglas Booth

The movie is so fun. I've done period pieces before but nothing with this twist. And the movie is just full of such wonderful people, such young actors - people like Matt Smith that I've been friends with for a while. — Douglas Booth

I'm still in the first baby steps of my career, so I've got so much to learn and so much to figure out. — Douglas Booth

I live alone so I always just eat out. When I'm in another relationship, then maybe we'll start cooking together. — Douglas Booth

I've had friends who have come away who've said, "I shouldn't have become such close friends with the director." You always want to get on with the director, but I personally prefer a relationship where you respect them - you get on really well with them, but they're boss, as it were. It's about trusting your director, for better or for worse. They're the one's seeing what's coming out on the monitors, so you have to try and trust what they say. — Douglas Booth

I was lucky enough to get a very good agent at the age of 15, and got my first film when I was 16, so it's been rolling on since then. — Douglas Booth

The best thing I've ever done for a girl hopefully is make them happy. Isn't that the most romantic thing you can do? — Douglas Booth

As a kid, I used to run around our garden waving a stick and pretending to be a million different people. That's why I became an actor, really. — Douglas Booth

I'd imagine a great date would be to go skiing. Imagine going skiing. Go ski with someone, if they can ski. — Douglas Booth

You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything. — Douglas Booth

I love to ride horses. I've ridden since I was a kid so I got to do some riding, which was a lot of fun. But most of the stunts were left to the girls. It's the girls rescuing the guys mostly. So it was kind of really kick-ass, girl power. It was wonderful to watch. It was particularly sexy. They would come in and just slay in these choreographed pentagram of death fight scenes. It was pretty impressive. — Douglas Booth

I'm just trying to choose interesting, quirky projects or things with interesting directors or just movies that have a lot of people I like attached to them so I know I'm going to have a good time. — Douglas Booth

I got to be about 13 and everyone started playing guitars and being in rock bands. There was no place for me with my trumpet and I wasn't cool anymore. Although now if I played the trumpet it would be the coolest thing in the world. — Douglas Booth

When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it, you sort of rebel against it in a certain way. — Douglas Booth

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts. — Douglas Booth

Travel is best when it's as unplanned as possible so that you get that real sense of adventure. The film 'Thelma and Louise' really encapsulates that - their travels are unplanned and spontaneous and therefore full of excitement, escapism and optimism. — Douglas Booth

I live for challenges. In my career, all I want to do is try to challenge myself and have a varied career. — Douglas Booth

Going over to Lesvos in Greece and meeting some of these poor refugees who have just made the treacherous sea crossing opened my eyes in a way I can't even being to describe. It's put a fire in my belly to really try to do something, the little I can do. — Douglas Booth

I've said I won't eat meat until the whole world can eat it responsibly, which is going to be hard. It's becoming more and more fashionable to eat more and more meat and they've just made it fashionable to eat meat in the east in China, which is a massive population. — Douglas Booth

Every year I look at the 'GQ' Best-Dressed List and have thought what an honour it must be to be included. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw my own face in there. — Douglas Booth

One of the biggest things I used to struggle with was about things like going on holiday. Whereas all your friends can talk about something and plan something all year long, I know that I'm probably going to be away and I'm going to miss all of it. If a job comes up, you just can't be there. — Douglas Booth

Ultimately I'll probably end up going out with an actress again. But an architect would be cool. They need to do something creative. I'm attracted to talent. But it would maybe be healthier if it wasn't in the industry. — Douglas Booth

When I meet girls, I pray that they don't know who I am. But I know that's limiting myself quite a lot. — Douglas Booth

I remember someone saying to my mom that it must be so glamorous to have a child acting in movies. They had no idea how hard it was for her. — Douglas Booth

Life Lessons by Douglas Booth

1. Douglas Booth's work demonstrates the importance of dedication and hard work in achieving success. He has shown that with the right attitude and commitment, anything is possible.
2. His career has also highlighted the importance of taking risks and embracing new opportunities, as well as the value of staying true to yourself and your passions.
3. Finally, Booth's work has shown that with the right attitude and determination, you can achieve success in any field, regardless of background or experience.