Charlie Heaton

I've lived out of a suitcase for four years.

When something steps in from the work you are doing and breaks into your personal life... you feel kind of vulnerable.

I want to work and continue to work - that's all I've ever done.

I seem to have the best onscreen mums.

I think acting's very natural. It comes from a place of honesty, and if someone tries to teach you their way of doing it, that could be quite damaging.

I look for a layered character who has problems and issues - which, by the way, we all do have.

That concept is quite universal, looking for love.

Every time I go somewhere, I'm like, 'This is where I want to be.' And then I'm like, 'But do I want to live here?'

When you're a young actor, you're expected to live a transient life.

I don't like watching horror films. I actually don't. I don't watch horror films.

I grew up in Bridlington until I was 16, and I lived with my mum and my sisters. I finished school, got my GCSE's, and at the time I didn't know what I wanted to do.

Sometimes you watch stuff and it's like, oh God - it's the obvious cliches of the genre. You've got to do better.

All my friends have always been older than me.

When I see my old mates they will say, 'You're doing well, good on you!' It kind of blows their minds - it blows my mind too!

I sometimes think, 'What am I doing standing on this red carpet?' It's hard to believe. You just tell yourself, 'Just play along and hopefully no one will notice!'

You can go to school and learn and that works for some people. But I think the best kind of learning is practical and learning on the job.

I think people are interesting enough. People with mental illness, or just real people going through real circumstances in life.

I was against getting Beats cause I know they're kind of really popular and you know, hey're such a well known brand. But, I ended up buying them and they have changed my life, and the best thing about these is the battery life.

A lot of the things that we do in life are to find connection.

I used to play in bands and my dad, he's a big Beatles fan, so I grew up on a lot of Beatles and you kind of find your own way in music.

I had this crazy trajectory. I went from literally living in a hostel in L.A. at the beginning of 2015 to shooting 'Stranger Things' at the end of 2015.

I had done acting at school, and it felt like something that came very naturally to me.

I got my awkward years out of the way.

I'm not having to grow up in the spotlight as a 14- or 15-year-old.

They see you as one thing, and you continue to do that. Do you want to play this really awkward, offbeat outsider? Yeah. I can - but I can do other things. It's having people trust that you can do other things, or proving it to them.