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Quotes by Guy Pearce

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.
– Guy Pearce
Ah, we tend to do a lot of that stuff in Australia. We don't really have the money to get anyone else to do it. We can't afford a stuntman today, so you'll be jumping onto the train. Right, okay.
– Guy Pearce
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.
– Guy Pearce
Even though we all speak English here in America, you all speak a very different language. So it's really enjoyable for me to work at home. It's more cathartic, I suppose. To work in America or other places is more about curiosity, because I'm dealing with cultures and sensibilities that I don't really know.
– Guy Pearce
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.
– Guy Pearce
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.
– Guy Pearce
I have real dilemmas at times in trying to understand what I really think about the things that are in films and how people respond to them. I flip back and forth from going, It's a slice of life. This happens in life. A film is an artistic venture. It's expressing life, so why not?
– Guy Pearce
I haven't done too many big American movies, really, have I? Well, I've a couple, I suppose. I certainly haven't done as many as I could have done.
– Guy Pearce
I'll have a different answer tomorrow that I do today.
– Guy Pearce
I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects of sound, and tone, and pitch and melody and all that sort of stuff. It's the first thing I have to solidify whenever I'm coming up - not 'coming up' with the character, because I never come up with them, the writer does that - whenever I get onto a character. The first thing I need to get sorted out before I can then move forward, before I can feel any confidence whatsoever, is the voice.
– Guy Pearce
It's funny because people think we all know each other and hang out together, and that we all grew up together. Some of us obviously do know each other, and we're obviously very aware of each other. What's he doing now? Right. I see. Why didn't I get offered that? I see. But, I live in Melbourne and most of those guys are from Sydney. There's a much more high energy, actory clique going on in Sydney than there is in Melbourne.
– Guy Pearce
Sometimes I'll go for something more because of the story, or more because of the director. But, generally, I have to feel like it's something that I have a real sympathy for - a person that I can completely go, Oh, wow, oh, I'm there. Otherwise I don't feel like I will be able to pull it off at all.
– Guy Pearce
The good thing is, really, if I'm to do a role where I want to put some muscle on, it doesn't take long back at the gym, because of muscle memory. It doesn't take long to go, Okay, we're back!
– Guy Pearce
Theatre seems to open up unrealised galaxies in my brain.
– Guy Pearce
There's a bunch of different people that I utilize when we record at home. There's a girl that I'll play with more regularly than anybody else, I suppose. Whenever I go home, she and I try to go and do some little gigs around the place, just the two of us. So, no, I'm not really in a band.
– Guy Pearce
They actually came to me over a year ago, and I was having an ever-so-mild nervous breakdown at that point, and felt I needed to just stop. So I went, I can't look at anything right now, I need to stop. I wasn't really having a nervous breakdown, I'd just done too much stuff back to back. And so a whole lot of time went by, and they called and said, Are you ready now to take a look at this script? So I did and then met with him in the UK.
– Guy Pearce
Well, English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent. Obviously there are more specific ones that get a little bit tricky. Same with American stuff. But because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.
– Guy Pearce
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.
– Guy Pearce
You know, Billy Friedkin and his work in the past - some of his work has not been my cup of tea, but some of it I found bizarrely exciting.
– Guy Pearce
You work on things and you have such faith in them while you're making them that everything feels special - in a way.
– Guy Pearce
The thrill of coming home has never changed.
– Guy Pearce
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.
– Guy Pearce
Success comes in waves.
– Guy Pearce
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.
– Guy Pearce
I've been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven't been right for me.
– Guy Pearce
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.
– Guy Pearce
I don't enjoy movies in 3D. I find I can't engage with the story as well.
– Guy Pearce
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.
– Guy Pearce