Quotes from Hugo Weaving

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the reality of life to impinge much on my life.

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.

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.

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.

When you're a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity.

Being in the woods at night is a beautiful thing.

People are more likely to pass me on the street without recognizing me, and that's good.

I'm so used to Australian films not getting a release outside Australia.

Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it's a total imaginary world.

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

It's great to blow the image that people have of me out of the water.

I do feel like I'm not entirely an insider.

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.

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

As an actor, to play someone who's at war with himself, that's so interesting.