Top 80 Guy Pearce Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “You can have a great time on a film and the chemistry can seem great but then you look at the finished film and it just doesn’t quite gel, something doesn’t quite work.”

— Guy Pearce

53. “I had to put the word out to people that I didn’t cost a fortune, and I was prepared to work at home. Because that’s the assumption: “Well, he lives in America now, we can’t afford him, we won’t bother.””

— Guy Pearce

54. “I’m far more comfortable in my 40s than I ever was.”

— Guy Pearce

55. “I don’t want to make a habit of just playing small roles, because I really enjoy the process of being part of a film and staying on it for the length of time that everybody else is as well.”

— Guy Pearce

56. “Comic-strip stuff isn’t really my cup of tea, really.”

— Guy Pearce

57. “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

58. “The funny thing is, because I was doing a lot of theater when I was a kid, and a lot of that was musical theater, as I got older I became more interested in acting as a separate entity and music as a separate entity, like songwriting and production and recording and playing music.”

— Guy Pearce

59. “Every time you say yes to a film there’s a certain percentage of your yes that has to do with the director, a certain percentage to do with the story, a certain percentage with the character, the location, etc...”

— Guy Pearce

60. “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.”

— Guy Pearce

61. “I can be fairly optimistic, but I’m probably more a realist, I think. I mean, optimism’s an interesting quality, isn’t it, because I’m always slightly dubious as to what’s behind it?”

— Guy Pearce

62. “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

63. “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

64. “I’ve been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven’t been right for me.”

— Guy Pearce

65. “Working on a studio picture, I can’t help but be aware of all the political stuff that’s going on. I have to work to be able to survive, in a sense.”

— Guy Pearce

66. “I don’t enjoy movies in 3D. I find I can’t engage with the story as well.”

— Guy Pearce

67. “I’m never there enough to really keep up with what’s going on in the Australian film industry. I just try and be part of it as much as I can.”

— Guy Pearce

68. “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?’”

— Guy Pearce

69. “Choosing work is an interesting thing. It’s a balance between what’s available and what you’ve always got in the back of your mind – that awful, strange thing that seems to have to exist in this industry, of what will give you “exposure.””

— Guy Pearce

70. “There’s many more films being made in America than there are in Australia. You make four hundred and fifty films a year, we make twenty-five.”

— Guy Pearce

71. “I don’t have many friends.”

— Guy Pearce

72. “I don’t understand the actor that chooses to play the same role in everything all the time.”

— Guy Pearce

73. “I am geared towards communicating on a female level.”

— Guy Pearce

74. “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

75. “There’s something about the American sensibility that kind of hails people in the public eye. You have a star system. You have that kind of thing where you say, “Good on you for doing that.””

— Guy Pearce

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

— Guy Pearce

77. “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

78. “I do like a variety of things so I’m always interested in finding something that I haven’t done before.”

— Guy Pearce

79. “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

80. “I always think the really unfortunate thing about the Australian film industry is its lack of momentum. And I don’t mean this in a derogatory way. I’m always wanting it to pick up momentum, and I’m wondering if that’s even possible.”

— Guy Pearce

81. “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.”

— Guy Pearce

82. “You do feel kind of nervous about any film you take on.”

— Guy Pearce

83. “I didn’t know what the path was that I wanted to be as an actor, to be honest. I’ve been doing a lot of theater since I was a kid, so I was just sort of taking opportunities.”

— Guy Pearce