Top 25 Paul Bettany Quotes

I’m sure some people have an absolute grasp of where they are in their careers. I just don’t think about it that much.

I think when you‘re trying to produce a relationship on screen that doesn’t actually exist, perhaps sometimes there’s a temptation to look at each other more, to touch each other more.

For some ungodly reason, I end up being naked in a lot of stuff. But there is a certain grace and kudos that come with taking your clothes off on the first day, a respect that is given by the rest of the cast.

Yeah, I love history and I loved it as a kid.

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

I feel safe in saying this, and that is that Peter Weir is without a doubt one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. I’d open a door in a movie for him if he asked me to.

It’s weird, because usually if you’re British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America.

I get bored easily.

The trouble with talking about acting is that it’s like sex. It’s enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you have to talk about it.

I know great actors whom nothing has ever happened for.

No one I know works in the industry. No, that’s not true – Liv Tyler.

In marriage, there’s a lot of ignoring each other, which is hard to fake on-screen.

So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off – and if you don’t, you’re a fool. You’re earning all this money to support children whom you then don’t see, which is absurd.

I was born a Catholic and now I’m a lapsed Catholic. I’m something but I’m not a believer any more.

The fact that in America bread lasts so long. You buy bread, and then it’s bread forever – it’s Forever Bread!

I still read the British papers, but I’ve never been a Royalist, ever. It’s funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England.

I’m never late, and I love that. Because when you’ve got three kids and a life to be living, and somebody‘s half an hour late to set, you start to get a little bit like, ‘Come on. Come on, let’s get this done.’

Paul is an awful name. I might as well be Bob.

Sure, you can do something frothy and ridiculous, but you should probably be confident that it’s going to be a sure-fire hit. Then it’s sensible, because it enables you to make smaller movies. But if you make something frothy and ridiculous that doesn’t work, it’s not worth it.

We all have different thresholds for sentimentality. For me, it’s a hard won happy ending.

I’ve noticed, in the ebbs and flows of success and popularity, so much of it is fraudulent and to be distrusted.

Actors can be many things – vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies – but all of the good ones are great storytellers.

I think the success of the Marvel films comes from the fact that they’re made by fans. They really love those characters. When I first came out dressed as Vision, Kevin Feige nearly cried.

I did eight months of training for ‘Wimbledon,’ and then, by the time I finished the movie another four months later, I was like, ‘That’s me. I’m done with tennis.’

For a while, I stopped enjoying making movies and I stopped enjoying acting, because I made a few decisions that I wish I hadn’t made.