Guy Pearce's Quotes

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.

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.

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?'

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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

I grew up with such an affinity to cats. I adore the way that they think and operate.

The thrill of coming home has never changed.

Funny enough, if you are looking at people these days who are putting Botox in their face and getting all sorts of plastic surgery, we look at them and go, I can tell you've had Botox. I can tell you've had plastic surgery. You look really strange to me. But no one's saying anything. We're just accepting the fact that they're strange-looking.

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

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.

I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things.

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

Comic-strip stuff isn't really my cup of tea, really.

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

I am geared towards communicating on a female level.

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

I don't enjoy movies in 3D. I find I can't engage with the story as well.

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

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 never really enjoyed the fame stuff.

I suffer from overheating quite easily.

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.

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

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'll have a different answer tomorrow that I do today.

I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can.

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

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.