Top 15 Callan McAuliffe Quotes

I’m not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on ‘Paradise Lost‘ to translate it.

I don’t want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.

I’ve always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn’t an actor, I’d be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.

I can play songs that I hear from a movie and just play it a few times on the keyboard. I will hit all the notes on the keyboard until I find the right key, and then I will play the rest of the song.

I never thought acting would be my life. I only started doing it because I needed something to occupy my weekends after I dislocated my knee and couldn’t play sport.

I didn’t really like my Sydney accent – nobody likes the sound of their own voice – and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I’ve only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven‘t been influenced by the accents of some far-off land.

I do chores around the house, but I don’t get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor… I’m sweeping the floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time.

I want to be able to have a conversation with people. I don’t want to be stupid. I’d like to have a life outside acting.

I have a huge Lego collection – I have a really big Lego collection. We’re talking pretty darn large. I also have a huge collection of original stainless steel Thomas the Tank Engine train toys. Beautiful little trains; they’re my favorite thing in the world.

I’m not a big texter anyway. I’m really slow at it and so I try to avoid it to avoid embarrassment, you know what I mean?

I would say I’m pretty much the exact same as the stereotypical American kid. I mean I’m really lazy, I play a lot of video games, I like girls. I like, you know, the violence and action type thing.

I find that you learn from others. It’s very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.

I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy.

A school out of Canberra sends me a term‘s worth of work. I sit on the couch by myself and complete it and send it back.

‘I Am Number Four‘ definitely borrows from a whole bunch of genres and has a whole bunch of different themes throughout. And I think if it was just one stale two-dimensional thing then it would be kind of boring. And I think they did a fantastic job.