Top 80 Guy Pearce Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The world doesn’t just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?”

— Guy Pearce

2. “Just because there are things I don’t remember, doesn’t mean my actions are meaningless. The whole world doesn’t just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?”

— Guy Pearce

3. “The thrill of coming home has never changed.”

— Guy Pearce

4. “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.”

— Guy Pearce

5. “I suffer from overheating quite easily.”

— Guy Pearce

6. “Ultimately the most challenging thing, always, is to just be convincing.”

— Guy Pearce

7. “It’s really interesting making films and actually seeing the life that they have in the subsequent years and seeing which ones stand up over time and which ones sort of fade away.”

— Guy Pearce

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

— Guy Pearce

9. “I don’t feel I’m making a conscious effort to go more commercial.”

— Guy Pearce

10. “I think that you can say something in one line with a look that you might need three lines on a page for normally.”

— Guy Pearce

11. “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

12. “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.”

— Guy Pearce

13. “I’m happy in a silent world – well, not a silent world but one that relies on – I’m in a pretty physical actor I suppose anyway, and I just don’t – I don’t struggle that idea of emotional expression just because there aren’t words to explain yourself.”

— Guy Pearce

14. “I’m definitely not non-chalant. I have to leave nonchalant at home when I’m working on something, otherwise I just don’t feel like I’m committed, and I’ve gotta be fully committed.”

— Guy Pearce

15. “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

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

— Guy Pearce

17. “I’ll have a different answer tomorrow that I do today.”

— Guy Pearce

18. “There’s a sense of humor within the Australian culture that prevails when one is in a rather difficult situation.”

— Guy Pearce

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

— Guy Pearce

20. “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

21. “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

22. “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.”

— Guy Pearce

23. “I reckon it’s more of an external perspective that on some level you really can control and dictate how your career’s going to go.”

— Guy Pearce

24. “I’ve not often been a man of many words. I’ve never considered myself to be overly articulate. I do feel more comfortable acting something out than I do explaining something or whatever.”

— Guy Pearce

25. “A lot of action characters are a little bit too serious as well. They take themselves a bit too seriously, which I don’t find particularly interesting, whereas I like the fact that there was at least some humor in this because really it’s a piece of entertainment.”

— Guy Pearce

26. “Australia’s not so bad with me, really, people are pretty cool with me at home, but in England it feels a little bit scary.”

— Guy Pearce

27. “When you’ve had a relationship with anybody in your life and you both know what that relationship is, you don’t have to do anything to prove to anybody that you’ve had that relationship. It just exists.”

— Guy Pearce

28. “Memory isn’t the facts, it’s just a record you keep to yourself. With the facts, memory is useless.”

— Guy Pearce

29. “I used to work out in the gym a lot when I was younger. I was a competition body builder when I was 16 or something crazy like that for a short period of time. So, the gym is quite familiar and I know what I’m doing there.”

— Guy Pearce

30. “I never really enjoyed the fame stuff.”

— Guy Pearce

31. “I do have aspirations when it comes to directing, I suppose, but in a sort of a vague way. It would probably come about if I found a project that I really felt passionate about.”

— Guy Pearce

32. “When I read something, I want to be surprised. So I read something and go, “Wow, I never, ever would have thought of playing this kind of role. This is exciting me, let’s go do this.””

— Guy Pearce

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

— Guy Pearce

34. “If you look at the films that I’ve done generally, you would probably get an idea of what I’m most interested in, and if ever I do something unusual like a science fiction film or an action film or a comedy or something, then that to me feels like a step to the side to do something different.”

— Guy Pearce

35. “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.”

— Guy Pearce

36. “I don’t believe in God, but the thing I do believe in is that we’re all connected.”

— Guy Pearce

37. “I really enjoy a variety of different work, and what I’ve just done may sometimes determine what I choose to do next.”

— Guy Pearce

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

— Guy Pearce

39. “I have a real love of sound and the shape of the sound. 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.”

— Guy Pearce

40. “I do like a variety of things so I’m always interested in finding something that I haven’t done before, if possible, to whatever degree that sometimes changes, and how much is something now that I wouldn’t have a year ago but sort of based on what I’ve done recently as well.”

— Guy Pearce

41. “If it’s a great role or a great film, then you’re happy to be a part of it.”

— Guy Pearce

42. “I find it really difficult to even articulate things that I’ve done in the past. I express myself through the characters that I play, not through the articulation of them later.”

— Guy Pearce

43. “You meet these people who are confident all the time. They annoy me. And I wonder if it’s because I’m envious or if it’s because they’re shallow.”

— Guy Pearce

44. “You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise.”

— Guy Pearce

45. “I’m constantly trying to be as original as I can.”

— Guy Pearce

46. “I really enjoy doing things that are more subtle and close to home – and literally close to home.”

— Guy Pearce

47. “I want to bring something different to every film. I get a bit tired of actors who kind of are the same character in every film that they do.”

— Guy Pearce

48. “Even though I’ve done a lot it also feels like I haven’t done a lot. I’ve sort of popped in for supporting roles in things, and that’s been really delightful.”

— Guy Pearce

49. “It’s interesting playing something that the audience doesn’t fully know.”

— Guy Pearce

50. “I think as an actor, or any artist, you move with your moods and you express what’s going on for you, and you answer to that voice within that’s calling for particular things.”

— Guy Pearce