Quotes By Guy Pearce

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

You work on things and you have such faith in them while you're making them that everything feels special - in a way.

The reality is that we have all these awards and all these festivals that give out awards, so you sort of go, 'okay, well, people liked the film, and I think it's a good film, and it's up for an award - well, I guess it should win the award then.'

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.

Where do you even draw the line between genres?

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.

When you're promoting a film it's really interesting trying to gauge what people think about it.

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.

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.

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.

Growing up, I was a kid pretending to be an adult.

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

I think when people are repressing things, or burying things, that can manifest in all sorts of ways.

I am geared towards communicating on a female level.

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 never really enjoyed the fame stuff.

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 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.

You never say never, but I don't think I'd want to do a long-running series.

I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.

The majority of people who join law enforcement are doing it for good, moral reasons, but then there are the few who get through, where you go, 'Whoa, hold on a second. What's this guy doing here?'

When I go to a movie, I'm always thrilled if I've seen an actor do something and I didn't realize until the end of the movie that that was that person. I love that.

Men often still expect women to be under their thumb.

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 just can't talk about things before I do them, because just for me... I give energy away before I've put energy into the job.

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.

I've always been resistant to parties and schmoozing.

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

I don't really relate to certain blokey men who just want to talk about blokey things. I never really know what to say and I always feel I have to act blokey in order to have them not say, 'You're a weirdo.'