Hugo Weaving Quotes

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.

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

We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

If the script grabs me and appeals to me, I'm really very keen to work on it.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

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

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

Being in the woods at night is a beautiful thing.

Never send a human to do a machine's job.

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

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.