Latest Guy Pearce Quotes from Interviews

Quotes about:

• The funny thing is, because I was doing a lot of theater when I was a kid, and a lot of that was musical theater, as I got older I became more interested in acting as a separate entity and music as a separate entity, like songwriting and production and recording and playing music.

  Guy Pearce

  Kids, Funny Things, Musical

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• There's many more films being made in America than there are in Australia. You make four hundred and fifty films a year, we make twenty-five.

  Guy Pearce

  Years, America, Australia

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• I had to put the word out to people that I didn't cost a fortune, and I was prepared to work at home. Because that's the assumption: "Well, he lives in America now, we can't afford him, we won't bother."

  Guy Pearce

  Home, America, People

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• Sometimes I'll go for something more because of the story, or more because of the director. But, generally, I have to feel like it's something that I have a real sympathy for - a person that I can completely go, "Oh, wow, oh, I'm there." Otherwise I don't feel like I will be able to pull it off at all. I know I haven't done everything very well in the past; some things have worked and some things haven't. But I need to feel like I can feel about the person, understand that person, I suppose.

  Guy Pearce

  Real, Past, Directors

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• I find it really difficult to even articulate things that I've done in the past. I express myself through the characters that I play, not through the articulation of them later.

  Guy Pearce

  Character, Past, Play

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• The first thing I need to get sorted out before I can then move forward, before I can feel any confidence whatsoever, is the voice.

  Guy Pearce

  Moving, Voice, Needs

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• 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, Culture, Television

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• I have a real love of sound and the shape of the sound. I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects of sound, and tone, and pitch and melody and all that sort of stuff.

  Guy Pearce

  Real, Musician, Sound

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• Australia's not so bad with me, really, people are pretty cool with me at home, but in England it feels a little bit scary.

  Guy Pearce

  Home, Australia, People

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• 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.

  Guy Pearce

  Listening, Problem, Form

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• There's something about the American sensibility that kind of hails people in the public eye. You have a star system. You have that kind of thing where you say, "Good on you for doing that."

  Guy Pearce

  Stars, Eye, People

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• Most of the time when I'm in Australia I'm not really working, it seems. I'm just at home, getting on with renovating my house or writing music or whatever. So I get back to doing all the stuff that I naturally do. Whereas if I'm away working, that's all there is to do, is to concentrate on the work.

  Guy Pearce

  Home, Writing, Australia

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• Working on a studio picture, I can't help but be aware of all the political stuff that's going on. I have to work to be able to survive, in a sense.

  Guy Pearce

  Political, Able, Stuff

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• There's a sense of humor within the Australian culture that prevails when one is in a rather difficult situation.

  Guy Pearce

  Difficult Situations, Culture, Sense Of Humor

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• To work in America or other places is more about curiosity, because I'm dealing with cultures and sensibilities that I don't really know. So I'm having to sort of investigate them, which I'm fascinated in, but it comes from a place of curiosity rather than a real need to get something out of my system.

  Guy Pearce

  Real, America, Curiosity

  Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com.

• I really enjoy a variety of different work, and what I've just done may sometimes determine what I choose to do next.

  Guy Pearce

  Different, Done, May

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think as an actor, or any artist, you move with your moods and you express what's going on for you, and you answer to that voice within that's calling for particular things.

  Guy Pearce

  Moving, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I really enjoy doing things that are more subtle and close to home - and literally close to home.

  Guy Pearce

  Home, Subtle, Enjoy

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I don't want to make a habit of just playing small roles, because I really enjoy the process of being part of a film and staying on it for the length of time that everybody else is as well.

  Guy Pearce

  Roles, Want, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

• If it's a great role or a great film, then you're happy to be a part of it.

  Guy Pearce

  Roles, Film, Great Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Choosing work is an interesting thing. It's a balance between what's available and what you've always got in the back of your mind - that awful, strange thing that seems to have to exist in this industry, of what will give you "exposure."

  Guy Pearce

  Giving, Interesting, Mind

  Source: www.avclub.com

• You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise, etc. Even if you do, sometimes there's a side of things that don't necessarily gel the way people intend. So there a bit of a mystical entity, film.

  Guy Pearce

  Wise, Art, People

  "Guy Pearce Exclusive Interview; Talks THE KING’S SPEECH, Luc Besson’s LOCKOUT, DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK, More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 9, 2012.

• You can have a great time on a film and the chemistry can seem great but then you look at the finished film and it just doesn't quite gel, something doesn't quite work.

  Guy Pearce

  Looks, Chemistry, Film

  "Guy Pearce Exclusive Interview; Talks THE KING’S SPEECH, Luc Besson’s LOCKOUT, DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK, More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 9, 2012.

• It's really interesting making films and actually seeing the life that they have in the subsequent years and seeing which ones stand up over time and which ones sort of fade away.

  Guy Pearce

  Years, Interesting, Film

  "Guy Pearce Talks LOCKOUT and Possible Sequel, PROMETHEUS, LAWLESS, and Untitled Drake Doremus Project". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 9, 2012.

• I do like a variety of things so I'm always interested in finding something that I haven't done before, if possible, to whatever degree that sometimes changes, and how much is something now that I wouldn't have a year ago but sort of based on what I've done recently as well.

  Guy Pearce

  Years, Degrees, Done

  "Guy Pearce Talks LOCKOUT and Possible Sequel, PROMETHEUS, LAWLESS, and Untitled Drake Doremus Project". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 9, 2012.