Top 40 Sam Worthington Quotes

Most actors go, ‘I read the script and fell in love with it’; I fall in love with the directors.

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.

Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That’s your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you‘re striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.

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 think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you’re out of the movie.

I do movies I would go to see.

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.

To film in water is three times harder than just on land.

Actors get to go to these amazing worlds. In ‘Terminator,’ I was a cyborg with feelings; in ‘Avatar,’ I lived for 15 months on a fantastical planet, and in ‘Clash of the Titans,’ I get to fight a scorpion the size of a dump truck. It’s a bizarre job, but you explore yourself.

I’ve lost love. I’ve tried to reclaim a lost love and didn’t know how to do it.

A lot of these people were getting to where they didn’t need help anymore. You have to start all over again.

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.

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.’

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.

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.

When I was young, my parents were these titanic, infallible figures. But Mum’s illness and Dad’s battles with diabetes and heart attacks had a ripple effect on me – reminding me of my own mortality and that these illnesses are genetic.

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.

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.

I don’t have a real home. When I got ‘Avatar,’ I sold everything that I owned because I knew it was going to be a long journey. I’ve got two bags, and that was four years ago, and I’ve been working ever since, and I’ve still only got two bags – a bag of books and a bag of clothes. That’s about it.

I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they’re not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. 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.

Starting out, they told me: ‘You’re a good-looking guy. We’ll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.’ But I’ve grown up, and that’s not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.

You spend five months filming in outer space and saving the world, and suddenly that kind of family unit and story disappears, and you come crashing back down to Earth, and you have to do your own washing… and most actors are insecure that the last job they did will be their last job ever.

I hate downtime.

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.

Oh, isn’t it cool? It’s so cool being an actor! It’s so cool having my face on a bus.

If you get something like ‘Avatar,’ it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

Every actor fears unemployment – even me.

My dad had to work for everything in his life; so did my mum: she cleaned people’s houses and looked after old people. You can be complacent and sit on the couch and complain about the dreams that you missed. Get off the couch!

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.

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 don’t mind being in studios, and I don’t mind being out in nature. They’re two different ways of making movies.

I’m looking for things where, like with ‘Ten,’ I don’t look like me, and I’m playing something a bit different. I’m just trying to flex a different muscle and see if it works. I’ve saved the world and killed monsters and done all that. Now I want to try something a bit different and a bit more challenging.

When I was in my 20s, I thought I knew who I was. And then as soon as I turned 30, I realized that person has bruises and bumps and dark parts. And you kind of go, well, that’s it. I’d rather embrace it than force myself to change.