Quotes By Guy Pearce

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

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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.

The thrill of coming home has never changed.

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.

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 am geared towards communicating on a female level.

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.

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

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 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?'