Eddie Redmayne Quotes

"The problem with motor neurone disease is they don't know when it starts. People go into hospital having fallen but get wrapped up and sent away, unless they're seen by an incredibly astute doctor. It is only when several things begin to go wrong that it'll be diagnosed."

"What's really interesting about actors, is that we all have opinions on how people's careers look, but I think you never have any idea of your own, or what other people think of you."

"I am fascinated by Omega's history. Particularly the First World War stuff, when they made watches for the flying corps, and the NASA side of it."

"I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Nala from 'The Lion King' - and it's a bit weird but various of my ex-girlfriends actually did look like Nala."

"Actors are actors, and there should be a complete fluidity for anyone to play anything."

"A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true."

"I'll always find the things that make a role complicated!"

"If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything."

"There's always been a relationship between the film world and fashion."

"If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting in 'Richard II' on stage was a huge physical workout, so I ended up more toned than I normally am."

"The percentage of actors employed is pretty small, and if you're lucky enough to have a good run at it, you do have a sense of responsibility."

"Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks."

"The thing about motor neuron disease, once a muscle stops working, it doesn't start again."

"I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again."

"I've been a closet lover of faux-reality TV since 'The Hills'. It's bad."

"If your dream is to tell stories, interesting stories, play interesting people, that's the bottom line. The people that I play have to be extraordinary."

"Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree."

"Going to the Oscars is always the most sensory overload and a huge amount of fun."

"Filming is about continuing to be alert and to think, and I find it quite exhausting."

"When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars."

"I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain."

"Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there's nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It's that same thing that you feel when you watch yourself on a video camera and you hate the sound of your voice - it's that times 800."

"As someone who gets nervous in silences, I spill words rather than really think."

"I hope, then, that every one who sees 'The Danish Girl' might be galvanized themselves to lead more authentic lives. How much lovelier would the world be then?"

"I feel like J. K. Rowling's world is one that is owned by everyone in some ways. People have grown up with it and have such a sense of that universe that there's something kind of wonderful seeing everyone get involved."

"I find in film acting that however many years you have done it for, you can feel totally relaxed and at ease with the people around you, absolutely wonderful, then roll camera and a little part of you goes, 'Ugh'. It is learning how to manage that."

"I come home from trying to pretend to know about astronomy and physics all day and turn on 'The Real Housewives'."

"For a year after I left Cambridge, I had an agent, and I was working in a pub and doing waitering. But I could stay at home rent-free."

"It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can't have."

"As a runner on a film, you are the lowest of the low, and yet you have incredible access to everyone. I can totally imagine that for actors in the middle of a Hollywood bubble, all they really want is a sense of normality, and that gopher can be a tap for that."