Quotes by Paul Bettany

Paul Bettany

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.

Bully

Self

Stories

An actor has so much less space and responsibility. Sometimes you come on, and there are already tape marks for where you are supposed to stand, and the dialogue is already decided on. If you want to make a change and contribute something, it has to be approved by a number of people.

Numbers

Responsibility

Space

But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God its fantastic.

Littles

Men

Thinking

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

Appreciate

Running

Shelter

For a while, I stopped enjoying making movies and I stopped enjoying acting, because I made a few decisions that I wish I hadn’t made.

Acting

Decision

Wish

For some ungodly reason, I end up being naked in a lot of stuff. But there is a certain grace and kudos that come with taking your clothes off on the first day, a respect that is given by the rest of the cast.

Clothes

Grace

Naked

I come down as an actor and my marks are already laid out on the floor – somebody else organized what I’m going to do. I think, why am I here? And why I’m here is to express the words with some sort of vague emotion and make them seem real. I wanted to go back to how it was before.

Actors

Real

Thinking

I do feel that scripts get developed now to a point where they’re sort of actor-proof. If the actor is not very good, the narrative still survives because it’s all in the dialogue. Not to say there aren’t great performances in English-language films, because there are every year, but the 1970s were awash with great performances, and I was wondering whether it had to do with the amount of space and the amount of responsibility given to the actors.

Responsibility

Space

Years

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.

Black And White

Culture

Thinking

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

Homelessness

Peculiar

People

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Guy

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Quotes by Paul Bettany

Paul Bettany

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.

An actor has so much less space and responsibility. Sometimes you come on, and there are already tape marks for where you are supposed to stand, and the dialogue is already decided on. If you want to make a change and contribute something, it has to be approved by a number of people.

But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God its fantastic.

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

For a while, I stopped enjoying making movies and I stopped enjoying acting, because I made a few decisions that I wish I hadn’t made.

For some ungodly reason, I end up being naked in a lot of stuff. But there is a certain grace and kudos that come with taking your clothes off on the first day, a respect that is given by the rest of the cast.

I come down as an actor and my marks are already laid out on the floor – somebody else organized what I’m going to do. I think, why am I here? And why I’m here is to express the words with some sort of vague emotion and make them seem real. I wanted to go back to how it was before.

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.

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

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