106 Quotes by Paul Bettany

Actors can be many things – vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies – but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I wanted to watch what my actors were doing and how they were telling the story.

I find that our response to homelessness really puzzlingly. It’s a peculiar response that people have.

I’m a guy who is married to an actress, who has three children, and lives in Tribeca. Where do you draw the line on what I am allowed to discuss?

So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off – and if you don’t, you’re a fool. You’re earning all this money to support children whom you then don’t see, which is absurd.

Doing the big budget films really makes you appreciate doing movies like Shelter. It’s because this is like doing theater, you just have to hit the ground running.

I still read the British papers, but I’ve never been a Royalist, ever. It’s funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England.

I come down as an actor and my marks are already laid out on the floor – somebody else organized what I’m going to do. I think, why am I here? And why I’m here is to express the words with some sort of vague emotion and make them seem real. I wanted to go back to how it was before.

I did eight months of training for 'Wimbledon,' and then, by the time I finished the movie another four months later, I was like, 'That's me. I'm done with tennis.'

The only thing I think I can be accused of about paparazzi is being really naive. I didn't think about it coming along with the job and I never, during my three years at drama school, fantasized about one bit of it.