Top 18 Jamie Bamber Quotes

When you start a new project, you wonder whether it’s the right choice.

I never had to try as a kid to stay in shape. In a way, there was no willpower involved.

It frustrates me that Britain can’t make something like ‘CSI’ or ‘The Sopranos‘. Instead, British TV puts soap in primetime while every other civilized nation leaves it in daytime. Viewers should be more demanding.

When I first did a U.S. pilot season, there were very few British actors schlepping around town trying to get into television. That was 1999.

I’m freakishly competitive, so I set a date to achieve a certain weight or fitness.

I would have thought there’s no greater country to watch rugby than New Zealand.

For those of us that were involved from the first days of ‘Battlestar,’ we were encouraged to give of ourselves and to feel that we had a voice, not just as the character but as part of the family that created the show. It changed me, certainly.

I’ve honestly been so lucky. I’ve never had a job where I didn’t look forward to being on set in the morning.

I love Prada shirts because they’re so decorative and figure-hugging, but I also like Reiss shirts because they’re clean, simple and look as if they’ve come off the peg from a design house.

L.A.’s become so cosmopolitan in its casting and also in its world view.

I think that insecurity/confidence balance is necessary.

I would love to do more family comedy.

It’s hard to measure up to ‘Battlestar’ – it’s hard not to measure things against it.

I wanted to acknowledge my U.S. heritage and to belong to it more closely. Having said that, I am certainly British by formation and education and readily think of London as home. I had never lived in the U.S. till 2007.

I was a team sports guy, but I don’t do that anymore. When I work out, it’s alone.

Back in the Eighties, I’d buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.

When I was trying to find work after drama school in London, it felt like the same actors always got the plum roles, especially in television. We have a smaller market place, vastly fewer drama-producing networks, and they seem to compete for the same established names for those projects.

When I’m living in L.A., I’m mainly a jeans, vintage T-shirt and Nike high-tops guy.