Quotes by Hugo Weaving

Hugo Weaving

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!”

Mean

People

Play

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

Boards

Film

Needs

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

Actors

Different

Film

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

Interesting

Play

War

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.

Character

Play

Rooms

Being in the woods at night is a beautiful thing.

Beautiful

Night

Woods

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.

Kids

Parent

West

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.

Film

Form

Way

Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.

Creating

Film

Kind

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!

Beautiful

Powerful

Wise

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Acting

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Appeals

Audience

Australia

Beautiful

Believe

Blow

Boards

Breathing

Challenges

Character

Children

Coffee

Communicate

Country

Creating

Different

Dreamer

Driving

Erotic

Espresso

Excited

Extensions

Feelings

Feels

Fighting

Film

Form

Games

Great Things

Identity

Ifs

Imagination

Insiders

Inspiration

Interesting

Jobs

Judging

Jumping

Kids

Kind

Letting Go

Levels

Littles

Lonely

Long

Lows

Machines

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Quotes by Hugo Weaving

Hugo Weaving

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.

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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