Quotes from Guy Pearce

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've always been resistant to parties and schmoozing.

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.

Well, I never wear shoes at home. Never.

On stage, you've got dialogue you've learned. You've got a paying audience. It couldn't be better, you know?

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.

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 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.

I suffer from overheating quite easily.

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

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

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.

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.

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

If it's a great role or a great film, then you're happy to be a part of it.

The thrill of coming home has never changed.

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

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.

Success comes in waves.

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

I don't really relate to certain blokey men who just want to talk about blokey things. I never really know what to say and I always feel I have to act blokey in order to have them not say, 'You're a weirdo.'

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

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