Guy Pearce
Guy Pearce
Guy Edward Pearceis an Australian actor and musician. He is well known for having starred in the role of Mike Young in the Australian television series Neighbours and in films such as The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, L.A. Confidential, Memento, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Road, The King's Speech, Prometheus, and Iron Man 3. In Australian cinema, he has appeared in The Proposition, Animal Kingdom, The Rover, Holding the Manand The Wizards of Aus. He has...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth5 October 1967
CityCambridgeshir, England
There's something about the American sensibility that kind of hails people in the public eye. You have a star system. You have that kind of thing where you say, "Good on you for doing that."
My problem is I'm an addictive personality. I can't have one coffee. I can't eat one piece of chocolate.
I don't enjoy movies in 3D. I find I can't engage with the story as well.
I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.
Most of the time when I'm in Australia I'm not really working, it seems. I'm just at home, getting on with renovating my house or writing music or whatever. So I get back to doing all the stuff that I naturally do. Whereas if I'm away working, that's all there is to do, is to concentrate on the work.
I just can't talk about things before I do them, because just for me... I give energy away before I've put energy into the job.
I never really enjoyed the fame stuff.
I suffer from overheating quite easily.
I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused.
I think a lot of actors take on fun roles and then they're lazy or flippant with them. I just can't do that.
I think when people are repressing things, or burying things, that can manifest in all sorts of ways.
I went through a period where I just wanted to punch everybody. Since then, I've had a lot of therapy and I've figured a lot of things out.
I don't believe in God, but the thing I do believe in is that we're all connected.
Working on a studio picture, I can't help but be aware of all the political stuff that's going on. I have to work to be able to survive, in a sense.