Paul Bettany Quotes

• I think when you’re trying to produce a relationship on screen that doesn’t actually exist, perhaps sometimes there’s a temptation to look at each other more, to touch each other more.

  Paul Bettany

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Think, Relationship

• I still read the British papers, but I’ve never been a Royalist, ever. It’s funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England.

  Paul Bettany

  Topics in Family, Funny

  Tags in British

• I feel safe in saying this, and that is that Peter Weir is without a doubt one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. I’d open a door in a movie for him if he asked me to.

  Paul Bettany

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Feeling, Saying

• So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off – and if you don’t, you’re a fool. You’re earning all this money to support children whom you then don’t see, which is absurd.

  Paul Bettany

  Topics in Children, Money

• I was born a Catholic and now I’m a lapsed Catholic. I’m something but I’m not a believer any more.

  Paul Bettany

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe

• It’s weird, because usually if you’re British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America.

  Paul Bettany

  Topics in America

• For some ungodly reason, I end up being naked in a lot of stuff. But there is a certain grace and kudos that come with taking your clothes off on the first day, a respect that is given by the rest of the cast.

  Paul Bettany

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reason, Rest

• In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don’t shoot films any more. There’s more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent.

  Paul Bettany

  Topics in America, Opportunity

  Tags in Film

• For a while, I stopped enjoying making movies and I stopped enjoying acting, because I made a few decisions that I wish I hadn’t made.

  Paul Bettany

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Enjoy

• But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it’s fantastic.

  Paul Bettany

  Topics in God, Love

  Tags in Architecture, Feeling

• I’m sure some people have an absolute grasp of where they are in their careers. I just don’t think about it that much.

  Paul Bettany

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Career

• The only thing I think I can be accused of about paparazzi is being really naive. I didn’t think about it coming along with the job and I never, during my three years at drama school, fantasized about one bit of it.

  Paul Bettany

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Think, Drama

• The fact that in America bread lasts so long. You buy bread, and then it’s bread forever – it’s Forever Bread!

  Paul Bettany

  Topics in America

  Tags in Forever

• The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.

  Paul Bettany

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Difficulty

• The trouble with talking about acting is that it’s like s*x. It’s enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you have to talk about it.

  Paul Bettany

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fun, Talk, Acting and Actors

• Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

  Paul Bettany

  Topics in Job

• Yeah, I love history and I loved it as a kid.

  Paul Bettany

  Topics in Love

Paul Bettany (17)

Birth:	27th May, 1971
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor

About

Paul Bettany is an English actor. He first came to the attention of mainstream audiences when he appeared in the British film Gangster No. 1, and director Brian Helgeland's film A Knight's Tale. He has been nominated for various awards, including BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. Bettany is married to American actress Jennifer Connelly, with whom he has three children.

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