Quotes by Hugo Weaving

About Hugo Weaving:

Hugo Wallace Weaving is an Australian-British film and stage actor. He is best known for his roles as Agent Smith in The Matrix trilogy (1999–2003) and Elrond in The Lord of the Rings (2001–2003) and The Hobbit (2012–2014) film trilogy, as well as the title role of V in the 2006 film V for Vendetta.
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We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely.

Hugo Weaving

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

Hugo Weaving

It's great to blow the image that people have of me out of the water.

Hugo Weaving

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

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

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

People are more likely to pass me on the street without recognizing me, and that's good.

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

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 human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a ch...

Hugo Weaving

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

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Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it's a total imaginar...

Hugo Weaving

I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a s...

Hugo Weaving

I do feel like I'm not entirely an insider.

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

Being in the woods at night is a beautiful thing.

Hugo Weaving

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

Hugo Weaving

If a film isn't really talking about who we are and what our psychologies are, then we're probably not that interested in it, actually.

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

I'm so used to Australian films not getting a release outside Australia.

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Author Bio

  • NameHugo Weaving
  • DescriptionNigerian born British-Australian actor
  • BornApril 4, 1960
  • CountryAustralia; United Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor; Voice Actor