Guy Pearce Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

Where do you even draw the line between genres?

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

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.

Well, I never wear shoes at home. Never.

The thrill of coming home has never changed.

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.

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.’

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.

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?’

Success comes in waves.

 

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

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

Men often still expect women to be under their thumb.

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.

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.

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.