Top 30 Hugo Weaving Quotes

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

I’m ‘of the world’.

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 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.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Being in the woods at night is a beautiful thing.

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

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

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 do feel like I’m not entirely an insider.

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.

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