Hugo Weaving Quotes

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

  Hugo Weaving

  Lonely, Way, Weaving

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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.

  Hugo Weaving

  Real, People, Pleasure

  "Hugo Weaving on being Elrond, The Matrix's evil AI, and a kidnapper convict". Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2012.

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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.

  Hugo Weaving

  Way, Film, Form

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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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.

  Hugo Weaving

  Breathing, Erotic, Necks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Hugo Weaving

  Jobs, Inspiration, Machines

  "Fictional character: Agent Smith". "The Matrix", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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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!

  Hugo Weaving

  Beautiful, Wise, Powerful

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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.

  Hugo Weaving

  Strong, Kids, Identity

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

  Hugo Weaving

  People, Streets, Recognizing

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• Being in the woods at night is a beautiful thing.

  Hugo Weaving

  Beautiful, Night, Woods

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• 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.

  Hugo Weaving

  Character, Play, Rooms

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• 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.

  Hugo Weaving

  Character, Thinking, Actors

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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.

  Hugo Weaving

  Thinking, Phones, Should

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

  Hugo Weaving

  Feels, Insiders

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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.

  Hugo Weaving

  Thinking, Self, Today

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

  Hugo Weaving

  Different, Actors, Film

  "Hugo Weaving Talks THE HOBBIT, TRANSFORMERS, and Red Skull; Says They Haven’t Filmed the Final HOBBIT Battle Yet" by Christina Radish, collider.com. October 14, 2012.

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

  Hugo Weaving

  Blow, Water, People

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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.

  Hugo Weaving

  Excited

  Source: collider.com

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• To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

  Hugo Weaving

  Games, Acting, Extensions

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• 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.

  Hugo Weaving

  Country, Reality, Thinking

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

  Hugo Weaving

  Stage, Great Things, Audience

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• 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.

  Hugo Weaving

  Children, Real, Fighting

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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.

  Hugo Weaving

  Play, People, Weaving

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

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  War, Play, Interesting

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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.

  Hugo Weaving

  Littles, Weaving, Kind

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

  Hugo Weaving

  Space, Jumping, Challenges

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