Gerard Butler quotes

Born
13 November 1969, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland.

Occupation
Actor.

Gerard Butler is a Scottish actor.

Movies
300 (2006)
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)

I always find stuff in my characters to relate to.
– Gerard Butler

I went from somebody who didn’t sing to somebody who didn’t speak.
– Gerard Butler

I wear a lot of Brioni and Ferragamo and Dolce, all of those kind of things.
– Gerard Butler

I had to prove myself to a lot of different people.
– Gerard Butler

I love to spend a lot of time on my own. I can seriously go into my own head and often love to let myself travel where I don’t know where I’m going.
– Gerard Butler

I see a lot of actors for whom life becomes one big schedule. I guess I try to be more sensitive to my private life – to take a breath of fresh air and be in the countryside or on a golf course.
– Gerard Butler

Funnily enough, when I originally went in for my screen test, that set was already built.
– Gerard Butler

I have literally run into 20 people all around the world with my face tattooed on them.
– Gerard Butler

I go to Scotland maybe three times a year, and I love it. When I’m at home, I feel at home, I feel myself, I feel connected.
– Gerard Butler

Manscaping and all of that is not my thing. I’m more of the Clint Eastwood kind of guy.
– Gerard Butler

I knew I’d just done one of the most amazing things that I will ever get a chance to do. Just to be part of a musical that’s not your background and to pull it off and to think that we’ve done something that’s really special.
– Gerard Butler

I love doing the stunts. It’s as simple as that.
– Gerard Butler

I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio… It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that’s what this story represents to me.
– Gerard Butler

There’s a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or an action-adventure or a real tough-guy role.
– Gerard Butler

Generally I don’t like doing remakes, but I think that’s more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons.
– Gerard Butler

In Scotland I’m just like a lot of other guys, but in America I’m seen as a very strong, masculine guy.
– Gerard Butler

As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland… because you’re going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things.
– Gerard Butler

My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts.
– Gerard Butler