Top 35 Nicholas Hoult Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “If you’re out, and starving, and need a bite to eat, then you need fast food.”

— Nicholas Hoult

2. “I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you’re a pessimist then that’s depressing all the time; if you’re an optimist and things don’t work out then that’s depressing, too.”

— Nicholas Hoult

3. “I always like to keep busy, otherwise my brain starts ticking.”

— Nicholas Hoult

4. “Other people’s success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.”

— Nicholas Hoult

5. “I don’t want to share my worries – that’s for me to know.”

— Nicholas Hoult

6. “I can be a bit grumpy. Im full of angst, and hormones.”

— Nicholas Hoult

7. “In real life you get out of the shower naked, so why wouldn’t you do it on screen? It’s just a normal thing.”

— Nicholas Hoult

8. “I’ve got a really great family round me, two sisters and an older brother and my mum and dad. Everybody’s equal.”

— Nicholas Hoult

9. “Supposedly I’m impossible to talk to. But it’s honestly not me being difficult. Sometimes you just don’t have a lot to say.”

— Nicholas Hoult

10. “I think all teenagers feel alone, and that nobody else knows what they are going through and all that sort of stuff.”

— Nicholas Hoult

11. “I don’t really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection.”

— Nicholas Hoult

12. “Nowadays we have so many things that take our attention – phones, Internet – and perhaps we need to disconnect from those and focus on the immediate world around us and the people that are actually present.”

— Nicholas Hoult

13. “As you’re growing up, it’s odd, because directors don’t expect you to grow up. They think you’ll be young forever, but as an actor, there is an awkward period when you’re too young for old or too old for young, and it can be an odd time.”

— Nicholas Hoult

14. “Occasionally people will look at me and do a double take and theyll look at me like theyre trying to think where they know me from.”

— Nicholas Hoult

15. “It’s always a bit overwhelming when you arrive on set and everyone’s new, but you soon become a big family. I find the hardest thing about acting is that you have to say goodbye to everyone at the end of a shoot.”

— Nicholas Hoult

16. “I won’t eat veal, and my mum won’t eat lamb, because she thinks it’s a bit harsh to eat cute things.”

— Nicholas Hoult

17. “As a kid, when you’re in a film with somebody, you look up to them, you know?”

— Nicholas Hoult

18. “I’m not one of those people who’s saying “I’m going to set up a production company”, because I like acting and not having to be a business man and do that side of things.”

— Nicholas Hoult

19. “I don’t think parents always know where their children are going or what they are doing, what they are up to.”

— Nicholas Hoult

20. “I’m not too vain – I sometimes take pride in my appearance, but I stick to the rule never to spend longer than a girl getting ready.”

— Nicholas Hoult

21. “I don’t like watching myself. I get embarrassed.”

— Nicholas Hoult

22. “After ‘Skins’ I became mildly famous, which was a bit of a disaster.”

— Nicholas Hoult

23. “Long-term boredom can’t lead to anything good.”

— Nicholas Hoult

24. “My mum always says work goes in waves: you have a good spell and then it dips.”

— Nicholas Hoult

25. “I try not to read about myself. Why would reading about yourself be interesting? You’re only going to be told you’re doing a good job and get big headed about it, or be told you’re rubbish and get down in the dumps. What’s the point?”

— Nicholas Hoult

26. “I’m happy with my career and I’m not going to have the trouble of being typecast.”

— Nicholas Hoult

27. “Anybody who has a problem with ‘Skins’ obviously doesn’t understand teenage life.”

— Nicholas Hoult

28. “I think if you set yourself specific goals, that’s quite a lot of pressure.”

— Nicholas Hoult

29. “That’s the main thing, looking for interesting characters, good directors, and experiences where you’re growing and learning.”

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30. “I’d just like to carry on acting.”

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31. “I manage to live pretty normally.”

— Nicholas Hoult

32. “That’s how I believed relationships worked: You go into town, pick up the girl you want, then ride off into the mountains and the townsfolk can’t get them back.”

— Nicholas Hoult

33. “I think interviews can be fine. It’s just there’s this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.”

— Nicholas Hoult

34. “I was really in to shiny things when I was younger and I stole a shiny tag for my dog. I didn’t get caught. I hope I don’t go to jail for that.”

— Nicholas Hoult

35. “I just want to be a better actor. You can always get better.”

— Nicholas Hoult

36. “When I like something, I love it, but then I’ll let it go completely.”

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37. “A lot of child actors keep acting for the wrong reasons.”

— Nicholas Hoult