Hugo Weaving

“Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.”

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

“I used to have two double espressos a day. I gave that up, had headaches for five days but now I'm feeling great.”

“There's nothing like being on a massive-budget film where you don't know anything, and there's a million people, and no one's communicating.”

“I kind of like the challenge of jumping into totally different spaces and styles and figuring out how to fit in.”

“I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.”

“When you're a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity.”

“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 imaginary world.”

“I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the reality of life to impinge much on my life.”

“I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.”

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

“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.”

“I didn't get my licence because I wasn't allowed to. But I haven't had a seizure for a long time so I could, theoretically, get my licence. But I'm now just so used to not driving, I'm scared of what I'd do.”

“Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16.”

“I'm 'of the world'.”

“I certainly don't advocate terrorism as a way of progressing and understanding people, nor do I believe labeling everything as a terrorist act is helpful either.”

“Being in the woods at night is a beautiful thing.”

“It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.”

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

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