Freddie Highmore Quotes

• People have different expectations when you’re younger – it’s less about changing yourself into a character; they want a more natural thing. And they just want you to be able to turn up every day and carry on working. They have a horrible fear of 10- or 11-year-olds, that they’re going to say ‘I don’t want to play today.’

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• I think in some ways I’m quite lucky to be living in London, there’s this certain separation from the movie business. In that way, it’s been quite easy to separate acting and going back to a normal life.

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• Don’t get too set on becoming an actor at an early age. I think that’s where some people get into trouble. Acting becomes their life. I don’t want that.

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• I’m pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It’s impressive.

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• There’s never been a particular band that I’ve followed religiously. But I do tend to listen to sadder music.

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• Scary is good. Kids like going to a movie and being really scared rather than fake scared.

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• Johnny Depp is probably the best actor.

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• It’s very nice having my mum as my agent. You know that she’s always doing what’s best for you.

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• I’ve never been a great cook.

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• I’m sure everyone has many types of music that they enjoy.

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• I’m not a sad person, upset the whole time, but I seem to be quite emotional.

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• I wish I could draw.

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• I never really acted at school. It was doing small parts on TV that really got me started.

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• I like to go to bed early so I can get up early.

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• I guess I’m just a normal kid apart from the acting.

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• For every different role you play it’s nice to have different challenges for each one.

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• Every day is a different day in New York; there’s always something new going on.

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• ‘Cinema Paradiso’ is a fantastic film, I love that.

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• I always tend to see, right after reading the script, the character and how I want to play it. I guess that’s sort of most of the work, preparing for the role, but almost the creation of the character seems to go on as I read through the script.

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• I think a lot of the time having someone who you, not base yourself on, but can see yourself being after a few years, you can get quite blinded by that, in the same way love can be.

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Freddie Highmore (27)

Birth:	14th February, 1992
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor

About

Alfred Thomas "Freddie" Highmore was born in Camden Town, London, England. He is an English actor, known for his leading movie and television roles, beginning during his childhood. His role in several films include: Women Talking Dirty, Finding Neverland, Five Children and It, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Arthur and the Invisibles, August Rush, The Spiderwick Chronicles, and The Art of Getting By. For his performances in Finding Neverland and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, he won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer in two consecutive years 2004–05.

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