Hugo Weaving quotes

Born
4 April 1960, Ibadan, Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria.

Occupation
Actor.

Hugo Weaving is an Australian-English actor.

Movies
Captain America The First Avenger (2011)
Mortal Engines (2018)
The Matrix (1999)
V for Vendetta (2005)

If the script grabs me and appeals to me, I’m really very keen to work on it.
– Hugo Weaving

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

I still, by and large, make low-budget Australian films.
– Hugo Weaving

I think I’m a bit of a dreamer. I don’t like the reality of life to impinge much on my life.
– Hugo Weaving

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

It’s kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it’s educated me a little bit more.
– Hugo Weaving

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

I’m ‘of the world’.
– Hugo Weaving

I used to have two double espressos a day. I gave that up, had headaches for five days but now I’m feeling great.
– Hugo Weaving

Being in the woods at night is a beautiful thing.
– Hugo Weaving

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.
– Hugo Weaving

People are more likely to pass me on the street without recognizing me, and that’s good.
– Hugo Weaving

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.
– Hugo Weaving

I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little – well, quite a lot, actually… things get quite formulaic.
– Hugo Weaving

I do feel like I’m not entirely an insider.
– Hugo Weaving

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.
– Hugo Weaving

When you’re a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity.
– Hugo Weaving

I certainly don’t advocate terrorism as a way of progressing and understanding people, nor do I believe labeling everything as a terrorist act is helpful either.
– Hugo Weaving

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.
– Hugo Weaving

It’s great to blow the image that people have of me out of the water.
– Hugo Weaving

I kind of like the challenge of jumping into totally different spaces and styles and figuring out how to fit in.
– Hugo Weaving

The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.
– Hugo Weaving

There’s nothing like being on a massive-budget film where you don’t know anything, and there’s a million people, and no one’s communicating.
– Hugo Weaving

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.
– Hugo Weaving

I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.
– Hugo Weaving

We’re all outsiders in a way. We’re all alone and can become very lonely.
– Hugo Weaving

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.
– Hugo Weaving