Hugo Weaving Quotes
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As an actor, to play someone who's at war with himself, that's so interesting.
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If the script grabs me and appeals to me, I'm really very keen to work on it.
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A lot of people have a fear of Shakespeare. Even actors do. People are like, "Oh, I won't go and see Shakespeare because the language is so hard," but it is. When you read it on the page, you go, "What?! What does that mean?!" If you go to a Shakespeare play and you've never been, you sit there and go, "I'm an idiot! I don't get it!"
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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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Being in the woods at night is a beautiful thing.
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I do feel like I'm not entirely an insider.
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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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People are more likely to pass me on the street without recognizing me, and that's good.
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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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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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The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.
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Never send a human to do a machine's job.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I still, by and large, make low-budget Australian films.
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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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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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I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually things get quite formulaic.
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To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.
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It's great to blow the image that people have of me out of the water.
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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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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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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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Across the board, Australian films need to have a lot more money spent on selling them.
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As an actor, to do all sorts of different films is great.
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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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