Zitat des Tages von Hugo Weaving:
We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely.
Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.
I still, by and large, make low-budget Australian films.
I do feel like I'm not entirely an insider.
People are more likely to pass me on the street without recognizing me, and that's good.
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.
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 used to have two double espressos a day. I gave that up, had headaches for five days but now I'm feeling great.
When you're a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity.
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 kind of like the challenge of jumping into totally different spaces and styles and figuring out how to fit in.
It's great to blow the image that people have of me out of the water.
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.
The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.
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 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.
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.
Across the board, Australian films need to have a lot more money spent on selling them.
If the script grabs me and appeals to me, I'm really very keen to work on it.
It's kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it's educated me a little bit more.
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.
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.
