Top 50 Douglas Booth Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

2. “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

3. “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

4. “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.”

— Douglas Booth

5. “I live for challenges. In my career, all I want to do is try to challenge myself and have a varied career.”

— Douglas Booth

6. “I live alone so I always just eat out. When I’m in another relationship, then maybe we’ll start cooking together.”

— Douglas Booth

7. “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

8. “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

9. “The most romantic things are very small, kind gestures from people you love.”

— Douglas Booth

10. “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

11. “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

12. “As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren’t actually invited.”

— Douglas Booth

13. “I like to cook Vietnamese pho or vegetarian curries. I need to cook more but I need somebody to cook with.”

— Douglas Booth

14. “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

15. “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.”

— Douglas Booth

16. “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

17. “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

18. “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

19. “I love to dance and dance all night long.”

— Douglas Booth

20. “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

21. “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

22. “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

23. “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

24. “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.”

— Douglas Booth

25. “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

26. “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

27. “I dreamt of being an actor ever since I was young.”

— Douglas Booth

28. “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

29. “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

30. “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

31. “Sometimes things are nothing on paper, but a genius director turns it into something amazing.”

— Douglas Booth

32. “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

33. “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

34. “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

35. “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

36. “I’d imagine a great date would be to go skiing. Imagine going skiing. Go ski with someone, if they can ski.”

— Douglas Booth

37. “I think it’s more important to seek the truth than to try and be perfect, to be honest.”

— Douglas Booth

38. “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

39. “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.”

— Douglas Booth

40. “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.”

— Douglas Booth

41. “Each character you play has its own set of characteristics, for want of a better word.”

— Douglas Booth

42. “I don’t think I’ve reached perfection by any stretch of the imagination, but maybe someday I’ll become a perfectionist.”

— Douglas Booth

43. “I think we can’t feed the amount of people that are on this planet the way we are doing it.”

— Douglas Booth

44. “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

45. “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

46. “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

47. “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

48. “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

49. “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

50. “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