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Sam Riley

(1980) Actor United Kingdom

19 quotes in 180 categories

Sam Riley is an actor from the United Kingdom, best known for Portlandia Activity Book.

Quick Facts About Sam Riley

Born: January 8, 1980
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Actor
Notable works: Portlandia Activity Book

About Sam Riley

Samuel Peter W. Riley is an English actor and singer. He is best known for his performance in the 2007 biographical film Control about the life of Ian Curtis, as protagonist Sal Paradise in the 2012 adaptation of the Jack Kerouac novel On the Road, and as Diaval in the 2014 film Maleficent. Riley received renown for his portrayal of Fitzwilliam Darcy in the 2016 film Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Sam Riley

I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.

Actor

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I learned to stop looking on the Internet pretty early on.

Early

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I'd been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite happened.

Actual

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'On the Road' is another one of those, a film in which the audience has a very clear idea of who they…

Another

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Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the way. And the more you…

Better

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I watch all the classic films that film people say that you ought to have seen, and I try to watch things…

Bored

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I've no interest in going on a road trip. If I want to go on holiday, I want to sit on a…

Beach

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I'm Angelina Jolie's sidekick in 'Maleficent'. It's cool.

Cool

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I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of…

Acting

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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when…

Am

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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.

Could

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My parents are relieved as much as anything that I'm getting some work.

Anything

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To do a studio film, something with Disney. My father is thrilled.

Cinema

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We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.

Ifs

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For me the costume is always a huge part of getting into character.

Character

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I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of…

Berlin

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As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.

Actor

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As an actor, I still dont really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.

Actors

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Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny,…

Actors

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