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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.

Guy Pearce

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Guy Pearce
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: October 5
Actor
Film Actor
Musician
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Ely
Cambridgeshire
Guy Edward Pearce
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I don't have many friends. Most of them are gay and I get on much better with women.
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The majority of people who join law enforcement are doing it for good, moral reasons, but then there are the few who get through, where you go, 'Whoa, hold on a second. What's this guy doing here?'
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I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects of sound, and tone, and pitch and melody and all that sort of stuff. It's the first thing I have to solidify whenever...I get into a character. The first thing I need to get sorted out before I can then move forward, before I can feel any confidence whatsoever, is the voice.
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I'm happy in a silent world - well, not a silent world but one that relies on - I'm in a pretty physical actor I suppose anyway, and I just don't - I don't struggle that idea of emotional expression just because there aren't words to explain yourself.
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A lot of action characters are a little bit too serious as well. They take themselves a bit too seriously, which I don't find particularly interesting, whereas I like the fact that there was at least some humor in this because really it's a piece of entertainment.
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When you've had a relationship with anybody in your life and you both know what that relationship is, you don't have to do anything to prove to anybody that you've had that relationship. It just exists.
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I can be completely indulgent and spend as many hours and days or weeks as I like on one thing. Writing music and sitting in my studio, just pottering with ideas, it's a lot more personal and creative for me, I don't feel restricted.
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Ultimately the most challenging thing, always, is to just be convincing
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I just can't talk about things before I do them, because just for me... I give energy away before I've put energy into the job.
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I think when people are repressing things, or burying things, that can manifest in all sorts of ways.
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I'll have a different answer tomorrow that I do today.
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The funny thing is, because I was doing a lot of theater when I was a kid, and a lot of that was musical theater, as I got older I became more interested in acting as a separate entity and music as a separate entity, like songwriting and production and recording and playing music.
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I don't believe in God, but the thing I do believe in is that we're all connected.
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