I don't know if I'm quite grizzly enough. My facial hair is still very thin and patchy. I feel someone who plays Wolverine potentially needs testosterone in abundance.
— Taron Egerton
It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.
I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
I used to sculpt a bit as a kid.
It's quite a thrill to be playing a hero.
I always sang in school choirs and went on tours to other countries. I have always loved it. It's a very communal thing, and you really connect with people.
The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.
For an actor to have the chance to go and play something that's far away from yourself, physically and also in terms of personality, character, is so much fun.
I completely get the drag thing.
Franchises mean that you're tied in. That's a lovely feeling of comfort to the whole thing. From a business perspective, it really keeps you current and lets you go and do other smaller, more pedestrian things.
I did a musical when I was 17, an amateur show, and I loved it.
If you watch a television show made by accomplished professionals of children's TV, it's all very expressive.
That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.
I had dreams of winning Olivier Awards.
The endless teen franchises that come out of Hollywood... more often than not, the central character doesn't have any discernible character traits. They're just the young, good-looking guy who goes on this journey. They're always played by fantastic young actors, but ultimately, they're not very interesting characters.
I have been in auditions where - because - you're always scared before, but if you let that scared feeling get the better of you or become too much, it could ruin your audition.
I applied to drama school when I was about 18 and didn't have any luck anywhere. They basically turned me away and said I had a bit of growing up to do. I went back to Aberystwyth and did my growing up by spending eight months working in Peacocks.
I love singing as much as I love acting.
The whole spirit of 'Eddie The Eagle' is that it's the taking part that counts, not the winning.
I meet an enormous number of incredible people all the time, people I find very inspiring, and I'm very busy.
I've always loved film, and it started with Pixar movies.
We don't quite have the same comic book culture as America, but I would watch Spider-Man cartoons and X-Men cartoons and watch Bond as much as anyone on the planet.
Doing 'Kingsman' is such hard work. It's so physical and demanding.
I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.
I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.
People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.
I'd love to do something at Marvel, but I don't think I would do a seven-movie deal. That's a bit too much for me.
I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.
For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for naturalism.
I'm not interested in being Franchise Boy.
Part of me looks forward to a time when I have a family and a partner and I take less of my nourishment from social occasions. Having a little unit around me will make my working life easier, because it is quite lonely otherwise.
Doing the press has become as much of a job as getting in front of the camera. You have to avoid burnout, avoid saying anything stupid, but still come across as yourself.
I learned how to ski for 'Eddie the Eagle.' I never skied before. So I had to go out to Germany a couple of weeks early and make sure I could ski.
I'm very conscious of... I don't feel like a star.
I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
Brie Larson's performance in 'Room' was pretty incredible.
I think being busy is a healthy thing.
I would have to have some tragedy and romance in my life, but I've actually had a very cushioned, caring upbringing. I'm desperately seeking some edge. Maybe I'll find it one day.
You go to drama school, and the people you revere and admire are those who work on the London stage, and you hope that's a world that you'll be able to break into and do enough occasional television and small film work to eventually get to the point where you're paying the bills.
Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
I love funk and soul and Motown.
I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.
I feel like I've made good friends with people I've worked with, but in terms of lasting inspiration, it is probably Matthew Vaughn who directed 'Kingsman' who's been really supportive, loyal to me, and been a really good person to work with.
In drama school, I entered a singing competition, which I ended up winning, which was great.
I'd like to do a play, and I'd like to do a musical.
I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.
I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.
I don't want to start getting my little violin out, but travelling across the world constantly and staying in hotels is tough, man.
In school, I always sang in choirs. In fact, I used to do a lot of musicals in the youth theatre that I was a member of between the ages of 16 and 18.
I think the idea of participation trophies has gotta be a really, really great thing. Kids are under enough pressure as it is without encouraging them to be the best too early.
