186 Quotes by Guy Pearce

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.”

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.

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.

I’ll have a different answer tomorrow that I do today.

I grew up doing musicals. I’ve done so many musicals in my life, I kind of got them out of my system. But, I certainly would be open to them. Rocky Horror Show is a big favorite of mine.

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.

I reckon it’s more of an external perspective that on some level you really can control and dictate how your career’s going to go.

If you look at the films that I’ve done generally, you would probably get an idea of what I’m most interested in, and if ever I do something unusual like a science fiction film or an action film or a comedy or something, then that to me feels like a step to the side to do something different.

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.