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Unless I'm a little bit scared about something, I'm genuinely not actually entirely happy. I feel I need to be just that little bit outside my comfort zone, and then I can really surprise myself and stretch myself, and I think that's a really good thing for any actor.

- Jack Reynor

Happy, I Think, Genuinely, Comfort Zone

I bring a copy of 'Dracula' with me wherever I go, the book. It's my favorite book in the world, it's absolutely incredible. My great-great grandfather was the guy who printed the first edition, so he's the first person to ever put 'Dracula' on the written page.

- Jack Reynor

Book, Bring, Dracula, Printed

I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'

- Jack Reynor

Big, Some, Show, Five-Year-Old

I feel as though maybe our concept of time and space is very limited. Maybe everything is all happening at once, if you know what I mean.

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Maybe, Very, Though, Time And Space

My least favorite thing about New York is probably the traffic. I hate it. The people are such aggressive drivers here, they're horrible.

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New, Here, Least, Aggressive

With 'Transformers,' I'm going to get to drive fast cars and have a lot of fun. That's what appeals to me about it. I want to have as much fun as possible.

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Want, Going, Transformers, Appeals

I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.

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Love, Sunshine, Great Place, Rains

I was always a big fan of Charlie Chaplin movies. I love 'The Great Dictator' and 'City Lights.'

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Love, Big, Always, Chaplin

I was an only child until I was 14, and there were no other kids around the area really. So I spent a lot of time on my own in the fields or by the lake, with just my imagination for company. I suppose I never wanted to let that part of me go.

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Own, Other, Part, Lake

I was a very forward kid. Quite intense. I'd walk right up to you and say, 'How are you? My name's Jack.'

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Kid, Forward, Very, Jack

It's hard to say how far we are down the road to our conventional understanding of artificial intelligence, but I think what we've developed so far, if it's not already consciously awake and hiding from us because it's seen what an ugly and destructive race we are, and it's trying to preserve itself, it's probably in a state of dreaming.

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Awake, How Far, I Think, Down The Road

I wake up pinching myself with the things that I've had the good fortune to be able to do. If it all ended right now, I'd be completely fine with it.

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Myself, Wake Up, Fortune, Pinching

The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.

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Die, Die Hard, Which, Clicked

I was a huge fan of 'Blade Runner.' That was a pretty formative film for me growing up. It really got my sci-fi juices flowing, as it were.

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Film, Pretty, Blade Runner, Runner

I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you'll get into a state of constant despair.

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Business, Go, Constant, Despair

I definitely used to dream of sitting in the movie theatre watching the 'Star Wars' credits come up knowing I was part of one of those films.

- Jack Reynor

Star, Movie, Films, Credits

There's nothing wrong with giving yourself a pat on the back. If you can't do that, you can't be objective about your work. You can't be conceited or cocky either, but you can't be too modest either.

- Jack Reynor

Work, Cocky, Pat, Conceited

I've always been a big fan of Philip K. Dick; I love his work. There's a returning theme of identity and the fragility of our identity. Even when we are looking at what we think is a stark reality, it might actually be something completely different.

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Love, Big, Been, Fragility

What appeals to me in a project is, I'll read the script, and I'll be like, 'Is this something that's new and something I haven't experienced before?' And if so, 'Am I gonna be able to handle it? Am I gonna be up to this challenge?' That's what I try to do.

- Jack Reynor

New, Like, Read, Appeals

I was raised as a Catholic. I went to a Jesuit school - obviously, being from Ireland, was brought up in quite a regimented belief structure. I shed a lot of that rigidity and got a sense that there are definitely forces that we don't understand. I think 'magic.' It's a word to apply to some of those things.

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Magic, Some, Shed, Catholic

'Transformers' gives people the ability to relax and rest for three hours. That's a substantial amount of time, given how plugged in to our devices we are. People don't give themselves enough time to sit down. They're no longer comfortable with themselves.

- Jack Reynor

Down, Three, Our, Substantial

If you have an opportunity to reach people on a broad scale, it's not enough to just entertain people. You have to take responsibility. You has to do something substantial. Otherwise you're squandering what you have.

- Jack Reynor

Reach, Entertain, Otherwise, Substantial

I don't want to shoot myself in the foot when it comes to getting work. But I'm just not as interested in most of the films that are made in the States. The characters aren't as compelling. The stories aren't as substantial.

- Jack Reynor

Work, Stories, Films, Substantial

When I was a kid, I used to pretend I was Han Solo all the time. Running around with my fingers pretending they were a blaster.

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Kid, Pretending, Used, Solo

I'll put it this way: with the kind of films that I do - creatively driven, with interesting directors and writers - I don't feel the need to work with the super established, top-tier directors that are out there.

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Need, Established, Films, Creatively

When I was a little, little kid, my family got a new washing machine, and they had a big box that was left over. So I cut a big hole in the box, and I made it like a giant TV set. I brought it into the living room, and I did the news and the weather for my family.

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Big, Cut, TV, Washing

If I'm brave, 99% of it comes from my mother.

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Mother, Brave

I think that diversity in your performances is what keeps you alive as an actor. You have to keep constantly evolving and surprising the audience and showing them that you can do things they didn't expect you to do.

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Think, Audience, I Think, Keeps

I couldn't even get an audition for network TV at home in Ireland.

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Audition, TV, Even, Ireland

So many Irish actors overplay that modesty because they're afraid people will judge them and say, 'The state of yer man, he thinks he's great,' or whatever.

- Jack Reynor

Will, Irish, Them, Modesty

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