Quotes By Guy Pearce

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

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.

Success comes in waves.

Well, I never wear shoes at home. Never.

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.

I don't understand the actor who plays the same role from movie to movie. Maybe it's because I worked on long-running television when I was in my teens, and so the idea of playing the same role just bores me intensely. I'd rather not do it at all.

I don't have many friends.

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 suffer from overheating quite easily.

I've been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven't been right for me.

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

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.'

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.