186 Quotes by Guy Pearce

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Ultimately the most challenging thing, always, is to just be convincing.

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.