186 Quotes by Guy Pearce

I can be completely indulgent and spend as many hours and days or weeks as I like on one thing. Writing music and sitting in my studio, just pottering with ideas, it’s a lot more personal and creative for me, I don’t feel restricted.

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.

I don’t have many friends.

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.

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?’

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.

My problem is I’m an addictive personality. I can’t have one coffee. I can’t eat one piece of chocolate.

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.

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.”