Guy Pearce quotes

The thrill of coming home has never changed.
-- Guy Pearce

#Home #Thrill #Coming Home

I can be fairly optimistic, but I'm probably more a realist, I think. I mean, optimism's an interesting quality, isn't it, because I'm always slightly dubious as to what's behind it?
-- Guy Pearce

#Optimistic #Mean #Thinking

Every time you say yes to a film there's a certain percentage of your yes that has to do with the director, a certain percentage to do with the story, a certain percentage with the character, the location, etc...
-- Guy Pearce

#Character #Directors #Stories

I used to work out in the gym a lot when I was younger. I was a competition body builder when I was 16 or something crazy like that for a short period of time. So, the gym is quite familiar and I know what I'm doing there.
-- Guy Pearce

#Crazy #Work Out #Competition

I do have aspirations when it comes to directing, I suppose, but in a sort of a vague way. It would probably come about if I found a project that I really felt passionate about.
-- Guy Pearce

#Passionate #Way #Projects

You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise.
-- Guy Pearce

#Wise #Art #Mind

Even though I've done a lot it also feels like I haven't done a lot. I've sort of popped in for supporting roles in things, and that's been really delightful.
-- Guy Pearce

#Roles #Done #Feels

I'm definitely not non-chalant. I have to leave nonchalant at home when I'm working on something, otherwise I just don't feel like I'm committed, and I've gotta be fully committed.
-- Guy Pearce

#Home #Nonchalant #Committed

I do like a variety of things so I'm always interested in finding something that I haven't done before.
-- Guy Pearce

#Done #Findings #Variety

I've learned from the past that it's important to recharge and get time in-between jobs, and if I can't get time in-between jobs then when I know I've got some time coming up at the end of a job, really try and take advantage of that. And do very mundane things at home and putter in the garden and spend time with family and make music and, you know, play with the dogs. Just get back to being me.
-- Guy Pearce

#Dog #Jobs #Home

If you look at the films that I've done generally, you would probably get an idea of what I'm most interested in, and if ever I do something unusual like a science fiction film or an action film or a comedy or something, then that to me feels like a step to the side to do something different.
-- Guy Pearce

#Ideas #Different #Looks

I didn't know what the path was that I wanted to be as an actor, to be honest. I've been doing a lot of theater since I was a kid, so I was just sort of taking opportunities.
-- Guy Pearce

#Kids #Opportunity #Actors

You do feel kind of nervous about any film you take on.
-- Guy Pearce

#Kind #Film #Nervous

I'm happy in a silent world - well, not a silent world but one that relies on - I'm in a pretty physical actor I suppose anyway, and I just don't - I don't struggle that idea of emotional expression just because there aren't words to explain yourself.
-- Guy Pearce

#Struggle #Emotional #Expression

I want to bring something different to every film. I get a bit tired of actors who kind of are the same character in every film that they do.
-- Guy Pearce

#Tired #Character #Different

I reckon it's more of an external perspective that on some level you really can control and dictate how your career's going to go.
-- Guy Pearce

#Careers #Perspective #Levels

When I read something, I want to be surprised. So I read something and go, "Wow, I never, ever would have thought of playing this kind of role. This is exciting me, let's go do this."
-- Guy Pearce

#Roles #Want #Wow

I don't understand the actor that chooses to play the same role in everything all the time.
-- Guy Pearce

#Play #Roles #Actors

When you've had a relationship with anybody in your life and you both know what that relationship is, you don't have to do anything to prove to anybody that you've had that relationship. It just exists.
-- Guy Pearce

#Prove

It's interesting playing something that the audience doesn't fully know.
-- Guy Pearce

#Interesting #Audience

I've not often been a man of many words. I've never considered myself to be overly articulate. I do feel more comfortable acting something out than I do explaining something or whatever.
-- Guy Pearce

#Men #Acting #Explaining

I think that you can say something in one line with a look that you might need three lines on a page for normally.
-- Guy Pearce

#Thinking #Three #Needs

I've done roles before where I've wanted to be buff and sort of fit or whatever. And I like to try and be a little bit fit because there's usually one scene in a movie where you've got to run, which means you've got to run for about five hours nonstop. So, for me, it's just worthwhile being fit because doing a movie can be kind of grueling for six, seven, eight weeks. Or 12 weeks.
-- Guy Pearce

#Running #Mean #Eight

I'm able to lead my life as well as make a film. My wife and my friends and people around me know that I do tend to distance myself a little bit during the making of a film, but I have to, it's a natural part of the process for me because you are indulging in the headspace of somebody else, you are investing in the psychology of somebody else and you are becoming somebody else, and so there isn't enough room for you and that somebody else.
-- Guy Pearce

#Distance #People #Wife

Well, English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent. Obviously there are more specific ones that get a little bit tricky. Same with American stuff. But because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.
-- Guy Pearce

#Australia #Listening #Littles

It's funny, though, with films, because you can incorporate a variety of elements, and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think it can work against you.
-- Guy Pearce

#Funny #Thinking #Elements

I always think the really unfortunate thing about the Australian film industry is its lack of momentum. And I don't mean this in a derogatory way. I'm always wanting it to pick up momentum, and I'm wondering if that's even possible.
-- Guy Pearce

#Mean #Thinking #Momentum

I'm never there enough to really keep up with what's going on in the Australian film industry. I just try and be part of it as much as I can.
-- Guy Pearce

#Trying #Film #Enough

I'm far more comfortable in my 40s than I ever was.
-- Guy Pearce

I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can.
-- Guy Pearce

#Trying

I'll have a different answer tomorrow that I do today.
-- Guy Pearce

#Different #Answers #Today

I went through a period where I just wanted to punch everybody. Since then, I've had a lot of therapy and I've figured a lot of things out.
-- Guy Pearce

#Periods #Wanted #Therapy

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.
-- Guy Pearce

#Communication #Independent #Film

A lot of people are going to hate me for saying this, but one of my least favorite kinds of music, or the kind of music that I feel I've so got out of my system, is musicals music.
-- Guy Pearce

#Hate #People #Kind

When I go to a movie, I'm always thrilled if I've seen an actor do something and I didn't realize until the end of the movie that that was that person. I love that.
-- Guy Pearce

#Actors #Realizing #Ends

I grew up doing musicals. I've done so many musicals in my life, I kind of got them out of my system. But, I certainly would be open to them. Rocky Horror Show is a big favorite of mine.
-- Guy Pearce

#Would Be #Done #Kind

Ultimately the most challenging thing, always, is to just be convincing
-- Guy Pearce

#Challenges #Convincing

Doing that hunt scene was really quite demanding. I actually broke a rib during that scene. And then all the scenes after that became quite challenging, just breathing and laughing.
-- Guy Pearce

#Hunting #Breathing #Laughing

You would think that with ten super-famous people in one movie, it's gonna be ten times more popular or viewed, but on some level, they can cancel each other out.
-- Guy Pearce

#Thinking #People #Levels

I've been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven't been right for me.
-- Guy Pearce

#Past #Action

I feel I do my best work when it's all there on the page, and I feel that the character is very vivid as I read the script and I'm not having to create stuff and trying to cobble together something. If I have to do that, then I don't entirely trust what I'm doing.
-- Guy Pearce

#Character #Trying #Together

I don't have many friends.
-- Guy Pearce

I think when people are repressing things, or burying things, that can manifest in all sorts of ways.
-- Guy Pearce

#Thinking #People #Way

I think a lot of actors take on fun roles and then they're lazy or flippant with them. I just can't do that.
-- Guy Pearce

#Fun #Thinking #Lazy

Funny enough, if you are looking at people these days who are putting Botox in their face and getting all sorts of plastic surgery, we look at them and go, I can tell you've had Botox. I can tell you've had plastic surgery. You look really strange to me. But no one's saying anything. We're just accepting the fact that they're strange-looking.
-- Guy Pearce

#Funny #People #Faces

I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things.
-- Guy Pearce

#Real #Struggle #Thinking

I grew up with such an affinity to cats. I adore the way that they think and operate.
-- Guy Pearce

#Cat #Thinking #Way

Growing up, I was a kid pretending to be an adult.
-- Guy Pearce

#Growing Up #Kids #Adults

If I'm exhausted, physically and particularly emotionally, I can't tell what's good and I can't tell what's bad and I'm useless.
-- Guy Pearce

#Useless #Exhausted

The majority of people who join law enforcement are doing it for good, moral reasons, but then there are the few who get through, where you go, 'Whoa, hold on a second. What's this guy doing here?'
-- Guy Pearce

#Law #People #Guy

A movie that gets a PG-13 rating can show someone running down a street killing 27 people. And there are no repercussions.
-- Guy Pearce

#Running #People #Killing

Comic-strip stuff isn't really my cup of tea, really.
-- Guy Pearce

#Tea #Stuff #Cups

Having a partner who has nothing to do with Hollywood helps keep things in perspective.
-- Guy Pearce

#Perspective #Hollywood #Helping

I am geared towards communicating on a female level.
-- Guy Pearce

#Female #Levels #Communicate

I don't believe in God, but the thing I do believe in is that we're all connected.
-- Guy Pearce

#Believe #Believe In God

I don't enjoy movies in 3D. I find I can't engage with the story as well.
-- Guy Pearce

#Stories #Enjoy #Wells

I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.
-- Guy Pearce

#Effort #Conscious #Feels

I just can't talk about things before I do them, because just for me... I give energy away before I've put energy into the job.
-- Guy Pearce

#Jobs #Giving #Energy

I never really enjoyed the fame stuff.
-- Guy Pearce

#Stuff #Fame

I suffer from overheating quite easily.
-- Guy Pearce

#Suffering

I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused.
-- Guy Pearce

#Mother #Father #Confused

My problem is I'm an addictive personality. I can't have one coffee. I can't eat one piece of chocolate.
-- Guy Pearce

#Coffee #Personality #Chocolate