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Callan McAuliffe is an Australian actor born on January 24, 1995. He has gained popularity for his outstanding performances in various television series and films, particularly for his roles in 'Grey's Anatomy' and 'Pretty Little Liars'.

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“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.”

School Term Couches Canberra

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“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.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Two Different Whole Would Be Jobs Numbers Four Boring Bunch Fantastic Genre Theme Just One Be Kind Stale

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“I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.”

I Can Running Can Do Wall Impressive Flip

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“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.”

Littles Sound Voice Land Havens Likes Los Angeles Accents Sydney

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“I don't like concrete jungles.”

Concrete Jungle Concrete Jungle

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

People Littles Sound British Tipsy

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“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.”

World Littles Bigs Beautiful Talking Huge Originals Train My Favorite Collections Engines Toys Steel Tanks Favorites Things Legos

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“There's no director or actor that I want to work with more than anyone else, other then maybe Johnny Depp, who I really would love to work with. I don't view any directors or actors above regular people, so I'm just happy to work with anyone, as long as they have talent.”

People Want Long Actors Views Talent Directors

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“I hate acting classes. I did a few, but I've always hated acting classes. I prefer to just watch a movie or watch TV and take it from there.”

Hate Acting Class Watches Tvs I Hate Hated Acting Classes

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“Johnny Depp is really my favorite male actor. Ellen Page would be my favorite female actor. Both of them, just because of the diversity that Johnny plays in his roles and just the different characters that he morphs into, it's fantastic.”

Different Play Character Would Be Actors Roles Diversity Pages Female Males My Favorite Fantastic Different Characters

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“I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.”

Accents Respectable Dialect

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“I hate watching myself, as do a lot of actors.”

Hate Actors I Hate

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“I'm not a big fan of training, at all. I really don't like it. I've done a few acting classes and I've just hated them. I think they train you to do something, and sometimes you might not be able to break out of it. Acting is lying, and lying is acting. So, I just prefer to read the script and do it my own way.”

Thinking Way Sometimes Done Bigs Might Able Lying My Own Acting Class Break Fans Training Train Scripts Hated Break Out Acting Classes

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“I enjoy making money and I enjoy the work [acting]. I'm really into it and it's really fun. As long as it goes for, I'm happy to keep going with it. It's a good ride so far, and I hope the wheels stay on.”

Long Fun Enjoy Acting Making Money Wheels Keep Going

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“I like to sleep. I like to do nothing. Nothing is my favorite kind of something.”

Kind Sleep My Favorite

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“Every country needs another country to make fun of.”

Needs Country Fun

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“The first American word that I learned was cheeseburger. And the first sentence I learned was, "I'm sorry but we don't serve breakfast after 12 o'clock."”

Firsts Sorry Sentences Clock Breakfast I'm Sorry Cheeseburger

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“I believe in things that have proof.”

Believe I Believe I Believe In Proof

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“I like people who are being normal and being themselves.”

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“I don't go for girls who have beach blond hair, that stereotypical girl thing. But, you know, whatever comes around.”

Knows Girl Hair Beach Girl Thing

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“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.”

House Mum Dishes Sweeping Chores Swagger Allowance Brooms

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“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.”

People Way Tvs Grasping Watching Tv

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“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.”

Play Would Be Sports Acting Needed Knees Weekend

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“I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.”

Wells Said Ends Might Fall Acting Wheels Biology Bad Things Bus Riding Marine Gigs Marine Biology

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“I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that.”

People Care School Guy Term Middle High School Don't Care Hierarchy Nerdy Middle Ground Really Popular

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“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.”

People Want Able Acting Stupid Conversation

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“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.”

Knows Mean Play Kids Action Girl Games Violence Like You Type Video Lazy I Like You Girl I Like

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“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?”

Knows Trying Mean Bigs Embarrassment

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

Hard Bigs Lost Fancy Paradise Translate

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“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.”

Ifs Actors Natural Fields Biologist Affiliation

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“I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.”

Knows Heart Bigs Difficult Effort Acting Fans Stage Performances Pressure Theatre Stage Acting

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“The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff.”

Guy Stuff Steps Add Accents Australian Smartness

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“You know, every country needs another country to mock, and Australians seem to be pretty good at impersonating American people. Maybe it's because all the movies and music and TV you see there is from America, so we just have the knack for it.”

People Knows Needs Country Seems America Tvs Mock Knack Movies And Music

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“I think it’s because there's quite a few of us now but because we’re less frequent than American actors - because Hollywood is the place to be for actors - and there's just a big rush when an Australian comes over just because there's less of them. I guess that's just how it is. Like if you pick a pink jellybean out of a jar of green ones it’d be amazing, but if you pick a green one, no one will care.”

Ifs Thinking Bigs Care Actors Picks Hollywood Green Australian Jars

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“I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.”

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“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 Can Play Song Keys Notes Keyboards

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About the Author

Born: January 24, 1995
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 36

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