Paul Bettany Quotes

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• I really like telling stories. When I was a kid, I wanted to write songs. In quite a fundamental, gratifying, childish way, I enjoy the doing of telling a story.

  Paul Bettany

  Song, Kids, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The only way one can guarantee one's loyalty is love. Loyalty is beyond logic, really.

  Paul Bettany

  Loyalty, Guarantees, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• In a world of increasing grey areas, we are becoming more and more entrenched in black and white positions.

  Paul Bettany

  Black And White, Becoming, World

  Source: collider.com

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• My experience of people is that they are infinitely forgivable.

  Paul Bettany

  People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The trouble with talking about acting is that it's like sex. It's enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you have to talk about it.

  Paul Bettany

  Sex, Fun, Talking

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• It's weird, because usually if you're British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America.

  Paul Bettany

  Naughty, Play, America

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• I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist.

  Paul Bettany

  Atheist, Catholic, Age

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• I have no interest in movies that take you somewhere dark and leave you there, for no reason.

  Paul Bettany

  Dark, Reason, Interest

  Source: collider.com

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• The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.

  Paul Bettany

  Beautiful, Moral, Natural

  "Paul Bettany: Playing Darwin with Creation". Interview with Adam Rutherford, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2009.

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• I'm a guy who is married to an actress, who has three children, and lives in Tribeca. Where do you draw the line on what I am allowed to discuss?

  Paul Bettany

  Children, Guy, Three

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I wanted to watch what my actors were doing and how they were telling the story.

  Paul Bettany

  Self, Bully, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The world is split into two kinds of people, those who would go out for a drink with John Lennon, and those who`'d choose Paul McCartney... After The Beatles came back from India, Lennon wrote "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" and McCartney wrote "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da." End of argument.

  Paul Bettany

  Gun, Two, People

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

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• Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

  Paul Bettany

  Jobs, Seconds, Five

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• I have an interest in giving people a cathartic experience, and making them look at homeless people differently, and making them question how they judge people, in general.

  Paul Bettany

  People, Giving, Judging

  Source: collider.com

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• I feel like the world we live in seems to be full of an increasingly grey area, but the culture that we live in seems to be getting really entrenched in black and white positions, and I think it's urgent to talk about that because it's going to kill us all.

  Paul Bettany

  Black And White, Thinking, Culture

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I still read the British papers, but I’ve never been a Royalist, ever. It’s funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England.

  Paul Bettany

  Fascination, Doe, Paper

  "Bowing Down To Paul Bettany". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. December 24, 2009.

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• I remember coming on my first set and it being a playground of things I wanted to ask questions about: cameras and lenses and what the lenses do, what's the focus puller doing and how does that work? Why is there less margin for error when there's less light? I was always asking questions and watching directors closely.

  Paul Bettany

  Asking Questions, Light, Errors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I learned so much about myself from reading this script and doing this movie [Shelter] because the level of judgment and the lack of humanity I saw in myself was disgusting. I never took into account what a homeless person might have been through.

  Paul Bettany

  Reading, Humanity, Levels

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Doing the big budget films really makes you appreciate doing movies like Shelter. It's because this is like doing theater, you just have to hit the ground running

  Paul Bettany

  Running, Appreciate, Shelter

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I find that our response to homelessness really puzzlingly. It's a peculiar response that people have.

  Paul Bettany

  People, Peculiar, Homelessness

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think language is the most important thing that human beings have ever accomplished, and the only thing that's really going to get us all out of the troubles that we find ourselves in.

  Paul Bettany

  Thinking, Important, Language

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I don't want to infantilize the actor; I want to empower the actor. Actors can be many things, but all of the really good ones are really great storytellers, and I'm interested in that. If you're not interested in that as a director then you better be Stanley Kurbrick.

  Paul Bettany

  Empowering, Directors, Actors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Logic doesn't really provide for loyalty. If your logic changes suddenly and things not make sense, you can alter your allegiance, but love stops you from being able to do that.

  Paul Bettany

  Loyalty, Able, Logic

  Source: collider.com

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• I was always waiting for the secret to be handed down to me. Ron Howard asked me what I was waiting for and I went, "Ron, I'm waiting to know the secret. I keep feeling there's some sort of secret that's going to passed on from a director." He went, "Oh no. There is none. You've just got to on and do it and make mistakes and figure it out."

  Paul Bettany

  Mistake, Waiting, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I realized that this story [Shelter] is all about family, family loss, and how it influences you day to day life.

  Paul Bettany

  Loss, Stories, Shelter

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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