Quotes By Guy Pearce

I grew up with such an affinity to cats. I adore the way that they think and operate.

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.

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.

The thrill of coming home has never changed.

It's hard to pinpoint why all of a sudden a group of Australian films will be doing well and why they perhaps are better made than some from the past.

Having a partner who has nothing to do with Hollywood helps keep things in perspective.

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.

If I'm exhausted, physically and particularly emotionally, I can't tell what's good and I can't tell what's bad and I'm useless.

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

I think a lot of actors take on fun roles and then they're lazy or flippant with them. I just can't do that.

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.

I don't have many friends.

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 went through a period where I just wanted to punch everybody. Since then, I've had a lot of therapy and I've figured a lot of things out.

I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can.

I wish I had the ability to crack wise, generally. You know, without getting punched. There's no way I could do it while getting beaten up. Definitely.

I suffer from overheating quite easily.

On stage, you've got dialogue you've learned. You've got a paying audience. It couldn't be better, you know?

Men often still expect women to be under their thumb.

My problem is I'm an addictive personality. I can't have one coffee. I can't eat one piece of chocolate.

Working on films where the money's more important than the creativity, I just get a bit freaked out by that. I just don't feel comfortable.

I'll generally write out every scene that's in the film on a couple of pieces of paper, just with a little one-line. And then I can scan it a bit and go, 'This first third of the film, generally, I'm kind of calm.' Then I might do something on one piece of paper that just relates to the energy of the character.

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.

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

A movie that gets a PG-13 rating can show someone running down a street killing 27 people. And there are no repercussions.

Doing that hunt scene was really quite demanding. I actually broke a rib during that scene. And then all the scenes after that became quite challenging, just breathing and laughing.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

Where do you even draw the line between genres?

Funny enough, if you are looking at people these days who are putting Botox in their face and getting all sorts of plastic surgery, we look at them and go, I can tell you've had Botox. I can tell you've had plastic surgery. You look really strange to me. But no one's saying anything. We're just accepting the fact that they're strange-looking.

The movie industry is very competitive, and if you're like me and you suffer from your own insecurities about whether or not you're any good, that can be troubling.