I'd been auditioning for parts for years. I never got any better at it. I'm crap at auditions. I know there are people who can walk into those rooms and make those lines sing on the page and get the job immediately. I wasn't one of them. I'm still not one of them.

Jamie Dornan

Art Age Years

Without Wit Thou

Christian Grey - he isn't a real person. He's a superhero. A myth. He's like Bigfoot! He's unbelievable. He's unattainable. There's no actor in the world who could live up to that.

Jamie Dornan

World Who Up

'The Fall' changed my life - that's not an overstatement.

Jamie Dornan

Men Life Change

My wife is a brilliant, hugely understanding person.

Jamie Dornan

Wife Understanding Understand

No matter what happens in my career, I've always got 'The Fall.'

Jamie Dornan

Car Ways Way

You want roles that challenge you and that scare you a little and where you can really discover something, even about yourself, that maybe you didn't understand.

Jamie Dornan

Car Yourself Yours

One of my favorite things about my life is that I have the same group of friends that I grew up with. I love them so dearly, and we give each other a hard time.

Jamie Dornan

Time Love Life

I feel pretty secure about who I am.

Jamie Dornan

Who T Secure

Mass appreciation doesn't always equate to something good.

Jamie Dornan

Good Ways Way

I like playing characters who are fractured, broken. I find that more relatable, for some reason. I don't feel that I'm like that myself by nature, but there's just something that you can really grab hold of if people have a darkness in them, I think.

Jamie Dornan

Nature You Yin

I grew up in a very liberal place.

Jamie Dornan

Very Up Place

If you are a skinny, baby-faced teenager, the last thing you want to hear is that you're cute.

Jamie Dornan

Teen Age You

A doctor once told me I have abnormal levels of adrenaline in my system.

Jamie Dornan

T System Stem

It's funny how you get a bit older and become more accepting of things. When you're in your twenties, you're skeptical of everything. I definitely felt like that.

Jamie Dornan

Funny Your You

I don't think if you looked up all the main points of feminism I would tick every one essentially myself.

Jamie Dornan

You Would Very

I'm not saying that experiencing loss is why I can cope with darker worlds - I'm not saying that for a second - but I think it opens up a side of you in terms of work that wouldn't be as accessible had that stuff not happened.

Jamie Dornan

Work You Yin

Basically, I've always had a complex with the way I walk. I've not always been told I've got a bad walk, but someone's always commented on my walk.

Jamie Dornan

Men Wit Ways

I don't really have choices in the material I get. So I have to make the choices in the way I play the characters.

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Way T Really

Throughout Ireland, there's a brilliant community of filmmakers and actors, and I guess there was always a lure to do some work in the place where I come from.

Jamie Dornan

Work Where Ways

I could eat 10 packs of Hula Hoops a day and not think about it.

Jamie Dornan

Think Thin T

People attach too much to the idea of being a model, that you can only be a certain way to have done it. You will always be dealing with it. You're an actor who used to be a model who never trained; there are not many directors queuing up.

Jamie Dornan

Nobody sane wants just to be famous.

Jamie Dornan

I read a lot about serial killers.

Jamie Dornan

I think when romantic comedies are done well, it's a great genre. 'When Harry Met Sally' is kind of a benchmark for me, but I'm very happy to admit that I love 'Pretty Woman.' I do! It's a great film, and so is 'Sixteen Candles.' I was a big John Hughes fan - still am. I have moments where I have to watch a Hughes film.

Jamie Dornan

When I think of sex symbols, I think of posters my two sisters had on their bedroom walls.

Jamie Dornan

It's not like I cleaned up with girls. I always looked young and I was very small; I hated being 'cute.'

Jamie Dornan

I feel very tied to Ireland and the U.K. and that side of the world.

Jamie Dornan

You'd be hard-pressed to find an actor who isn't a sex symbol somewhere.

Jamie Dornan

I think I've done two shoots in my underwear ever. They both happened to be for Calvin Klein. But that tag - 'underwear model' - I just can't get rid of it. And it's such a bizarre, specific thing - underwear. It's like I never modelled clothes.

Jamie Dornan

I'm still not aware that I'm good looking.

Jamie Dornan

Addiction is a terrible thing.

Jamie Dornan

Because I used to play a lot of sport, I've always been in decent enough shape. When I used to get asked to do a bit of body work before a photo shoot I'd lie and say, 'Yeah, I'm going to the gym.' I literally never did anything.

Jamie Dornan

I don't like my physique. Who does?

Jamie Dornan

People ask me what Gillian Anderson's like to work with, and I have no idea!

Jamie Dornan

Everyone likes a bit of competition.

Jamie Dornan

My dad was a keen actor when he was young; my auntie is heavily involved in amateur dramatics back in Northern Ireland, and my great aunt was a woman called Greer Garson.

Jamie Dornan

I'm amazed if people are happy in their own skin.

Jamie Dornan

People expect me to be stupid. I'm not saying I'm Stephen Fry, but it is amazing the perception people have.

Jamie Dornan

I'm probably the worst person for 'Men's Health' to interview.

Jamie Dornan

I'd been auditioning for parts for years. I never got any better at it. I'm crap at auditions. I know there are people who can walk into those rooms and make those lines sing on the page and get the job immediately. I wasn't one of them. I'm still not one of them.

Jamie Dornan

I guess I'm just lucky with my genes.

Jamie Dornan

I defy anyone to watch interviews with Ted Bundy and not be taken by him. He was very handsome and charming and extremely intelligent and, you know, that can exist.

Jamie Dornan

I'd always really wanted to act; but the modelling contracts came more easily.

Jamie Dornan

When I was younger, I thought maybe one day I'd be involved in sport in terms of career.

Jamie Dornan

I've always needed to bulk up, so until the modeling took off I was ramming Big Macs down my throat and doing plenty of bodyweight work. I'm over the Big Macs now, but I'll still drop down and do my press ups whenever I find the time.

Jamie Dornan

I can't really do the running on hard ground that I used to do. Instead I go swimming as often as possible.

Jamie Dornan

Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.

Jamie Dornan

It's funny when you know you're playing two characters and you're aware of how you have to play each one into your performance of the other. You're constantly at the back of your mind thinking and it all gets a bit confusing.

Jamie Dornan

They do very classy, sexy television in the U.S. - and they pay a lot more, so there's always that draw!

Jamie Dornan

I've never felt massively satisfied from standing there while someone takes my photograph. It's never given me a thrill.

Jamie Dornan