186 Quotes by Guy Pearce

It’s interesting playing something that the audience doesn’t fully know.

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.”

I’m far more comfortable in my 40s than I ever was.

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.

I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I’m working with, or mother, if I’m working with a female, or it can be confused.

Comic-strip stuff isn’t really my cup of tea, really.

I don’t believe in God, but the thing I do believe in is that we’re all connected.

It’s funny, though, with films, because you can incorporate a variety of elements, and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think it can work against you.

I can be fairly optimistic, but I’m probably more a realist, I think. I mean, optimism’s an interesting quality, isn’t it, because I’m always slightly dubious as to what’s behind it?