Gerard Butler quotes

I had to prove myself to a lot of different people.
-- Gerard Butler

#People #Different #Prove

One thing I've learned as an actor as well as a producer is to trust my own instinct. When I first started acting I would sometimes have ideas about certain things, whether it's a scene, or a character or certain dialogue, that wouldn't be followed. I was never in a position to have the power to press the matter. Sometimes it wasn't even about my character. But I'd watch the movie afterwards and think I was right.
-- Gerard Butler

#Character #Thinking #Ideas

The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for.
-- Gerard Butler

#Chance #Appreciated

I don't know whether it's spiritual development or trying to learn the psychologically with being an actor, but I realise the more I get into it that this was something I was always supposed to do. That allowed me to sit easiser in the life I was living. But that doesn't mean to say you just stroll through it. It takes work and the work is not always about acting. It's sometimes about how you deal with the ups and downs of hope, of expectation.
-- Gerard Butler

#Spiritual #Mean #Expectations

I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.
-- Gerard Butler

#Fun #Rocks #Training

To me, all those jobs I did [roles] have been amazing experiences for one reason or another. I got paid and I learned something. I think that's what helped me carry on because I've never really given out that energy of, "oh, I've lost my chance" or missed it in some way.
-- Gerard Butler

#Jobs #Thinking #Energy

The thing about courage is it’s something that we have to learn and relearn our whole lives.  It’s not just in you, it’s in every choice we make every day.
-- Gerard Butler

#Choices #Whole Life

When I'm making a movie, it's making use of my creative juices, and it fills me up with what really is - I think my purpose here is to tell stories.
-- Gerard Butler

#Thinking #Creative #Stories

You know that every bead of sweat falling off your head, every weight you've pumped - the history of that is all in your eyes,
-- Gerard Butler

#Fall #Eye #Sweat

I love a girl with a good sense of humour, who is confident but who has a sweetness to her - that melts my heart.
-- Gerard Butler

#Girl #Heart #Humour

I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern.
-- Gerard Butler

#Patterns #Cotton #Littles

Theres a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or an action-adventure or a real tough-guy role.
-- Gerard Butler

#Fun #Real #Adventure

I had to go and sing with the musical director of the film, Simon Lee, who is just incredible, and it went great. I sang with him about five things, things we'd worked on. And then I went to sing for Andrew Lloyd Weber.
-- Gerard Butler

#Musical #Directors #Film

Choosing the right mask helps you... We went through many masks. It was very particular leather that as soon as you smudged it, you had to get a new one. We went through about 55 masks.
-- Gerard Butler

#Helping #Mask #Leather

On Phantom... I listened to the music while I was reading the script. And it had just blown me away. I really... I was so excited about it. It's been a long time since I really got so excited about something.
-- Gerard Butler

#Reading #Long #Scripts

I have a level of fear going into every project, and that's what keeps me going.
-- Gerard Butler

#Levels #Projects

At first it was a bit strange and daunting to have to wear a mask, but afterwards I came to enjoy it. In warm conditions, though, it started to slip off my face. Other times they used this double-sided sticky tape, and I literally couldn't get it off my face. I would feel like I was ripping my face off and I had a lot of cuts and bruises because of it-huge red marks. People might think it was method acting.
-- Gerard Butler

#Cutting #Thinking #People

I mean, I made The Phantom, although The Phantom was, believe it or not, an independent film. It was just a very large, expensive independent film.
-- Gerard Butler

#Believe #Mean #Independent

The truth is never pretty.
-- Gerard Butler

#Truth #Reality #Truth Is

I started singing for The Phantom in January, and we started filming in October and I sang all the way through to the next June. In fact, I was singing for about two months before I even knew I had the role.
-- Gerard Butler

#June #Two #Singing

I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.
-- Gerard Butler

#Guitar #Law #Training

I always find stuff in my characters to relate to.
-- Gerard Butler

#Character #Stuff #Relate

I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.
-- Gerard Butler

#Upset #Looks #Stories

I went from somebody who didn't sing to somebody who didn't speak.
-- Gerard Butler

#Singing #Speak

My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts.
-- Gerard Butler

#Agents #Contracts

I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom.
-- Gerard Butler

#Singing #Movement #Wearing A Mask

I appreciate and love women for many reasons, tall and small, plump and skinny, and crazy and demure. I see beauty in all of them.
-- Gerard Butler

#Crazy #Appreciate #And Love

I spent many years not knowing where my dad was... Not knowing if my dad was alive, even. He turned up when I was 16 out of the blue.
-- Gerard Butler

#Dad #Blue #Years

Funnily enough, when I originally went in for my screen test, that set was already built.
-- Gerard Butler

#Tests #Enough

The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified with so powerfully. From the first second that I walked on to perform.
-- Gerard Butler

#Roles #Phantoms #Firsts

Wilbur brought the vision and Rodney executed it.
-- Gerard Butler

#Vision

Be the hero of your own life story.
-- Gerard Butler

#Hero #Stories #Life Story

I think I get laid less now than I used to, because I’m way more paranoid now.
-- Gerard Butler

#Thinking #Way #Used

If you just tell the story of what the storys about, then it sparks curiosity, but I think it also arouses suspicion, as you say, that it could be overly sentimental. But it so isnt. And I think it was all about doing the inner work and then underplaying everything.
-- Gerard Butler

#Thinking #Curiosity #Stories

When I went to Scotland to do another movie, I would sing with a coach up there and then when I went to New York I sang with a coach over there-I mean I've now sung with coaches in LA, New York, London, Glasgow, St Louis and Rio de Janeiro!
-- Gerard Butler

#New York #Mean #Scotland

I'm very down-to-earth. I think I'm still 'street'.
-- Gerard Butler

#Thinking #Earth #Streets

I love to do films of all shapes and sizes and feelings and genres. So for me to go from Tomb Raider straight into Dear Frankie, there's nothing that excites me more than to keep mixing it up.
-- Gerard Butler

#Feelings #Mixing #Shapes

I think it's one of the nicest privileges as an actor is to know that you can move people in one moment, make them think about their lives, or make them laugh or make them cry or make them understand something. Or just make them feel something because I think so many of us, including myself, spend too much time not feeling enough, you know?
-- Gerard Butler

#Moving #Thinking #People

I know I have within myself... a side of solitude. I think people who know me can see, but people who just meet me can't because I'm generally very fun and gregarious. I love to spend a lot of time on my own. I can seriously go into my own head and often love to let myself travel where I don't know where I'm going. I always felt that that was his kind of form of escape, in a way.
-- Gerard Butler

#Fun #Thinking #People

Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons.
-- Gerard Butler

#Thinking #Cynical #Hollywood

The fact that you touched somebody's soul or made them laugh-that's a wonderful thing.
-- Gerard Butler

#Laughing #Soul #Facts

Of course when you spend four hours in prosthetic makeup and you really are looking at yourself and you see how revolting you've become in a way, it obviously adds another strand and helps you... a little bit more.
-- Gerard Butler

#Makeup #Add #Four

When I was 12, I was in Oliver! at a theater in Glasgow.
-- Gerard Butler

#Theater #Glasgow

In Scotland I'm just like a lot of other guys, but in America I'm seen as a very strong, masculine guy.
-- Gerard Butler

#Strong #Scotland #America

The Scots will do anything to beat the English or just to see them lose, but I've never bought into that really.
-- Gerard Butler

#Beats #Scots

As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things.
-- Gerard Butler

#Long #Trying #Lanes