Top 40 Hugo Weaving Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Never send a human to do a machine’s job.”

— Hugo Weaving

2. “I packed coffee once when I lived in Australia, and I just remember going around every day with coffee up my nose and in my ears.”

— Hugo Weaving

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3. “I’m always trepidatious and excited about what I do. I wouldn’t choose to do something, unless I am really excited about it.”

— Hugo Weaving

4. “It’s a real pleasure to go to work when you’re in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.”

— Hugo Weaving

5. “We’re all outsiders in a way. We’re all alone and can become very lonely.”

— Hugo Weaving

6. “I think I’m a bit of a dreamer. I don’t like the reality of life to impinge much on my life.”

— Hugo Weaving

7. “I keep thinking I should get a phone, because everyone’s got one and it becomes increasingly difficult to exist in a society where everyone else has moved ahead and you haven’t.”

— Hugo Weaving

8. “Being in the woods at night is a beautiful thing.”

— Hugo Weaving

9. “I think I’m much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that’s something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me.”

— Hugo Weaving

10. “As human beings, of course, we’re all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there’s room for me to express them, that’s a part I’d love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional.”

— Hugo Weaving

11. “I’m so used to Australian films not getting a release outside Australia.”

— Hugo Weaving

12. “Having agreed to play Elrond, I realized how much had to be worked out about this character: the idea of portraying someone who is immortal, for one thing; plus the fact he is noble, wise, powerful, good – and beautiful! I began to think that he was altogether impossible to play!”

— Hugo Weaving

13. “There’s nothing like being on a massive-budget film where you don’t know anything, and there’s a million people, and no one’s communicating.”

— Hugo Weaving

14. “I do feel like I’m not entirely an insider.”

— Hugo Weaving

15. “People are more likely to pass me on the street without recognizing me, and that’s good.”

— Hugo Weaving

16. “Film has a tendency to be limiting in some way and it shouldn’t be. It’s a form that can be explored and changed.”

— Hugo Weaving

17. “It’s great to blow the image that people have of me out of the water.”

— Hugo Weaving

18. “If a film isn’t really talking about who we are and what our psychologies are, then we’re probably not that interested in it, actually.”

— Hugo Weaving

19. “To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.”

— Hugo Weaving

20. “I think when your image becomes so big that it’s hard for a viewer to see a character, then I think you’re in danger as an actor of being unable to perform what you should be doing.”

— Hugo Weaving

21. “When you’re a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity.”

— Hugo Weaving

22. “I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.”

— Hugo Weaving

23. “I still, by and large, make low-budget Australian films.”

— Hugo Weaving

24. “If the script grabs me and appeals to me, I’m really very keen to work on it.”

— Hugo Weaving

25. “I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn’t feel an affinity for them then they wouldn’t be particularly good performances.”

— Hugo Weaving

26. “Across the board, Australian films need to have a lot more money spent on selling them.”

— Hugo Weaving

27. “I didn’t get my licence because I wasn’t allowed to. But I haven’t had a seizure for a long time so I could, theoretically, get my licence. But I’m now just so used to not driving, I’m scared of what I’d do.”

— Hugo Weaving

28. “I don’t think I’ll ever escape the fact that I don’t belong anywhere in particular. I’ve often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that’s a very romantic notion. It’s a hideous country to go to in reality.”

— Hugo Weaving

29. “In a real fight, there ain’t no time and you’ve got to use your wits. If someone were threatening the life of my child, then I’d be a good fighter. If somebody just wanted to steal my wallet, well, maybe I wouldn’t worry about it so much.”

— Hugo Weaving

30. “It’s kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it’s educated me a little bit more.”

— Hugo Weaving

31. “Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16.”

— Hugo Weaving

32. “I kind of like the challenge of jumping into totally different spaces and styles and figuring out how to fit in.”

— Hugo Weaving

33. “I guess I judge my films by how pleased I am with the work I do, so it’s kind of on another level. If they do well at the box office, then that’s great. Then I’m really pleased about that too.”

— Hugo Weaving

34. “Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.”

— Hugo Weaving

35. “One of the positive aspects from my point of view in terms of lifestyle doing film is that I can say “Well, I’m now going to have three months where I’m just going to hang out and be with the family”.”

— Hugo Weaving

36. “I certainly don’t advocate terrorism as a way of progressing and understanding people, nor do I believe labeling everything as a terrorist act is helpful either.”

— Hugo Weaving

37. “As an actor, to do all sorts of different films is great.”

— Hugo Weaving

38. “I used to have two double espressos a day. I gave that up, had headaches for five days but now I’m feeling great.”

— Hugo Weaving

39. “The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.”

— Hugo Weaving

40. “I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little – well, quite a lot, actually things get quite formulaic.”

— Hugo Weaving

41. “As an actor, to play someone who’s at war with himself, that’s so interesting.”

— Hugo Weaving