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
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.
English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent.
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.
If it's a great role or a great film, then you're happy to be a part of it.
I am geared towards communicating on a female level.
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."
Having a partner who has nothing to do with Hollywood helps keep things in perspective.
Funny enough, if you are looking at people these days who are putting Botox in their face and getting all sorts of plastic surgery, we look at them and go, I can tell you've had Botox. I can tell you've had plastic surgery. You look really strange to me. But no one's saying anything. We're just accepting the fact that they're strange-looking.
My problem is I'm an addictive personality. I can't have one coffee. I can't eat one piece of chocolate.
Australia's not so bad with me, really, people are pretty cool with me at home, but in England it feels a little bit scary.
Growing up, I was a kid pretending to be an adult.