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I hate downtime.
My private life stays private.
Every actor fears unemployment - even me.
I'm Australian! How much more alpha can you get?
I've done a lot of roles where I'm the hero saving the planet.
People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances.
I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it.
If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
All you need in any industry is someone to back you, and Jim Cameron backed me up.
I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on Big Brother.
When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'
Everything is backwards now, like out there is the true world, and in here is the dream.
When you're working with friends, unless the material is right, our friendship could end.
Most actors go, I read the script and fell in love with it; I fall in love with the directors.
Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.
I think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you're out of the movie.
Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
I think any actor who talks in beatings-up is just talking himself up. I tend to not bring them up.
I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.
A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.
I don't mind being in studios, and I don't mind being out in nature. They're two different ways of making movies.
Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
Each job you have has it's own challenges. One of the great things about my job, is that each film is a different journey.
I want a movie to be satisfying for an audience. That sense of having to get it done, no matter what cost, is what I like.
I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.
One of the best movies of the year was 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes.' That's not just an action movie - it's a prison film.
I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
Patriots is quite simple; there's seven continents in the world, if you had to sacrifice one continent and make it six would you do it?
A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.
When I do my job, I dive into these characters and try to flush something out of myself into these characters, and hopefully that translates well.
You get to go and play with the big boys, it's a very privileged thing for us to do. So I'm sure we have more ideas than what I actually have time for.
I sign on to any project because of the director: because they won't change, and you've got to feel confident that you're in good hands, in their vision.
Clothes have memories, and sometimes you don't want to remember. People remember where they bought the clothes, who gave them, or where they stole them from.
The high mountains are barren, but the low valleys are covered over with corn; and accordingly the showers of God's grace fall into lowly hearts and humble souls.
Some actors can create characters and leave them at 'Cut!', but I work the opposite way and drag them out of me. For me, it's about fixing your fabric to fit the role.
I love my job; I love the world that it is. But I don't want someone who is just in love with that world. I want to be with someone who is in love with me, warts and all.
You can write whatever you want about me in websites and newspapers, but no one really knows me. They get the idea that I'm a tough, heroic figure, but I'm a sensitive pussycat.
Any actor wants their movies and their work to be seen. You don't make a movie or get into this profession for your work not to be seen and just to show them to your mates at home.
You've always got to be smart enough to go 'Well they're going to have to bring some of their own in'. We don't want to be a monopoly where we get shoved out, it has to be symbiotic.
I installed anti-rust roofing into homes in Cairns. I packed boxes at Baby Barn. I was even a Manny! Mate, I know more about braiding hair and My Little Pony than most men, I can tell ya.
I like to play board games a lot with my girl, things like that. We attempt to cook. And even if it goes wrong, it doesn't matter because it's the time you spend doing it that's important.
I like the Kardashians. I watch 'em. When Kim got the botox in her face, and it made her face go weepy, that was funny. I also watch 'America's Next Top Model.' I've always been a big fan.
To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.
I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that's a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That's my job.
In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.
There's always gonna be criticisms, no matter what movie you do, no matter what. You can't please everybody, and it doesn't matter what the genre is. There's always gonna be a positive to a negative comment.
Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man.
I went to drama school with John Schwarz and Mike's his younger brother, so he tends to just hang out, that's it. So we're a pretty tight bunch of guys, they do whatever they do and they're my brothers basically.
It's a fine line. If you withhold too much, you come across as wooden - as I've often been described in some movies. Fair enough. I believe that the best performances are the ones that an audience has to search for.