Hugo Weaving quotes
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“I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me.”
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“I'm so used to Australian films not getting a release outside Australia.”
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“I didn't get my licence because I wasn't allowed to. But I haven't had a seizure for a long time so I could, theoretically, get my licence. But I'm now just so used to not driving, I'm scared of what I'd do.”
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“The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.”
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“People are more likely to pass me on the street without recognizing me, and that's good.”
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“It's great to blow the image that people have of me out of the water.”
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“Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16.”
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“I keep thinking I should get a phone, because everyone's got one and it becomes increasingly difficult to exist in a society where everyone else has moved ahead and you haven't.”
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“I certainly don't advocate terrorism as a way of progressing and understanding people, nor do I believe labeling everything as a terrorist act is helpful either.”
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“I used to have two double espressos a day. I gave that up, had headaches for five days but now I'm feeling great.”
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“If the script grabs me and appeals to me, I'm really very keen to work on it.”
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“When you're a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity.”
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“I kind of like the challenge of jumping into totally different spaces and styles and figuring out how to fit in.”
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“As an actor, to do all sorts of different films is great.”
-- Hugo WeavingSource : "Hugo Weaving Talks THE HOBBIT, TRANSFORMERS, and Red Skull; Says They Haven’t Filmed the Final HOBBIT Battle Yet" by Christina Radish, collider.com. October 14, 2012.
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“To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.”
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“As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional.”
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“It's kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it's educated me a little bit more.”
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“I packed coffee once when I lived in Australia, and I just remember going around every day with coffee up my nose and in my ears.”
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“I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances.”
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“I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.”
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“I guess I judge my films by how pleased I am with the work I do, so it's kind of on another level. If they do well at the box office, then that's great. Then I'm really pleased about that too.”
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“Having agreed to play Elrond, I realized how much had to be worked out about this character: the idea of portraying someone who is immortal, for one thing; plus the fact he is noble, wise, powerful, good - and beautiful! I began to think that he was altogether impossible to play!”
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“In a real fight, there ain't no time and you've got to use your wits. If someone were threatening the life of my child, then I'd be a good fighter. If somebody just wanted to steal my wallet, well, maybe I wouldn't worry about it so much.”
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“Being in the woods at night is a beautiful thing.”
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“Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.”
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“I was on top of Keanu Reeves, he was on his back and I was on my trunk, and I was breathing down his neck for hours and hours. It was... very erotic.”
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“I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the reality of life to impinge much on my life.”
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“We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely”
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“One of the positive aspects from my point of view in terms of lifestyle doing film is that I can say "Well, I'm now going to have three months where I'm just going to hang out and be with the family".”
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“Never send a human to do a machine's job”
-- Hugo WeavingSource : "Fictional character: Agent Smith". "The Matrix", www.imdb.com. 1999.
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“I do feel like I'm not entirely an insider.”
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“It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.”
-- Hugo WeavingSource : "Hugo Weaving on being Elrond, The Matrix's evil AI, and a kidnapper convict". Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2012.
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“As an actor, to play someone who's at war with himself, that's so interesting.”
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“Across the board, Australian films need to have a lot more money spent on selling them.”
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“I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.”
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“I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually things get quite formulaic.”
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“I still, by and large, make low-budget Australian films.”
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“If a film isn't really talking about who we are and what our psychologies are, then we're probably not that interested in it, actually.”
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“I think when your image becomes so big that it's hard for a viewer to see a character, then I think you're in danger as an actor of being unable to perform what you should be doing.”
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