Top 43 Hugo Weaving Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. 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.
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#3. 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.
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#4. I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the reality of life to impinge much on my life.
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#5. 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.
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#6. I'm always trepidatious and excited about what I do. I wouldn't choose to do something, unless I am really excited about it.
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#7. I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually ... things get quite formulaic.
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#8. If the script grabs me and appeals to me, I'm really very keen to work on it.
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#10. 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.
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#11. As an actor, to do all sorts of different films is great.
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#12. People are more likely to pass me on the street without recognizing me, and that's good.
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#13. 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.
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#14. It's kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it's educated me a little bit more.
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#15. 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.
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#16. 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".
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#17. I used to have two double espressos a day. I gave that up, had headaches for five days but now I'm feeling great.
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#18. I kind of like the challenge of jumping into totally different spaces and styles and figuring out how to fit in.
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#20. 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.
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#21. 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.
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#22. 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.
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#23. 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.
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#24. 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.
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#25. Across the board, Australian films need to have a lot more money spent on selling them.
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#26. 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.
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#27. Being in the woods at night is a beautiful thing.
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#28. We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely.
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#29. 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.
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#30. 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!
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#31. Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.
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#32. I was on top of Keanu Reeves, he was on his back and I was on my trunk, and I was breathing down his neck for hours and hours. It was ... very erotic.
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#33. It's great to blow the image that people have of me out of the water.
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#34. 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.
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#35. As an actor, to play someone who's at war with himself, that's so interesting.
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#36. 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.
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#37. To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.
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#38. I still, by and large, make low-budget Australian films.
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#39. 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.
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#40. I do feel like I'm not entirely an insider.
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#41. When you're a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity.
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#42. 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.
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#43. I'm so used to Australian films not getting a release outside Australia.
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