Quotes By Eric Bana

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

I guess subconsciously that all the great people you work with have an influence on you.

I never look at the size of the film when I'm looking for a part.

Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation. It's measurable - unlike acting.

I'm always reading and looking around for the next thing.

As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.

I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.

I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow.

If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character?

A girl's got to be fun. It's the one bit of advice I always give to friends of mine who are thinking of getting married.

I've always described parts as tattoos. For actors our tattoos are in the form of films.

I'm always one time zone behind myself.

I really enjoy working on small films.

I'm spending all my time and energy on the project at hand.

I would never say never to returning to comedy.

I occasionally go to the gym and I lift free weights, I don't use machines.

I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.

When I go on the plane to fly home, I'm literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home, home.

I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, 'Bring back the spikes, Dad.'

The more I love the character, the harder it is to get it wrong. I have to get to a point that I can speak for them.

I wasn't going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story.

I deliberately fly in and out of LA for as small a time as humanly possible.

My wife and I really, really like each other as well as love each other.

Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue.

The movies people don't talk about or remember after six months' time don't really matter.

It's always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work.

The only thing that may make me different from other people is I have passionate interests outside of work.

I've given no thought to moving to America at all.

When you're shooting a film, you really don't get to be a dad, and you don't really get to be a husband. You don't really exist at all. But I do drag my family with me on location whenever I can.

I don't like to come at my character from some really technical place.