I really like telling stories. When I was a kid, I wanted to write songs. In quite a fundamental, gratifying, childish way, I enjoy the doing of telling a story. Paul Bettany More Quotes by Paul Bettany More Quotes From Paul Bettany The only way one can guarantee one's loyalty is love. Loyalty is beyond logic, really. Paul Bettany loyalty guarantees way I have an interest in giving people a cathartic experience, and making them look at homeless people differently, and making them question how they judge people, in general. Paul Bettany judging giving people I learned so much about myself from reading this script and doing this movie [Shelter] because the level of judgment and the lack of humanity I saw in myself was disgusting. I never took into account what a homeless person might have been through. Paul Bettany levels reading humanity I do feel that scripts get developed now to a point where they're sort of actor-proof. If the actor is not very good, the narrative still survives because it's all in the dialogue. Not to say there aren't great performances in English-language films, because there are every year, but the 1970s were awash with great performances, and I was wondering whether it had to do with the amount of space and the amount of responsibility given to the actors. Paul Bettany space responsibility years I'm a guy who is married to an actress, who has three children, and lives in Tribeca. Where do you draw the line on what I am allowed to discuss? Paul Bettany three guy children 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. Paul Bettany fascination paper doe Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along. Paul Bettany seconds five jobs In a world of increasing grey areas, we are becoming more and more entrenched in black and white positions. Paul Bettany black-and-white becoming world I simply don't understand the refugee crisis. The history of humanity can be told through a story of migration and settlement. If I can't protect my family, I'm coming to where you are; I'm just coming. It's a round world, and we've all got to get on with it and move on. Paul Bettany refugee-crisis humanity moving I have no interest in movies that take you somewhere dark and leave you there, for no reason. Paul Bettany interest reason dark The world is split into two kinds of people, those who would go out for a drink with John Lennon, and those who`'d choose Paul McCartney... After The Beatles came back from India, Lennon wrote "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" and McCartney wrote "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da." End of argument. Paul Bettany gun two people Logic doesn't really provide for loyalty. If your logic changes suddenly and things not make sense, you can alter your allegiance, but love stops you from being able to do that. Paul Bettany logic able loyalty 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. Paul Bettany fun talking sex I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist. Paul Bettany catholic atheist age The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful. Paul Bettany moral natural beautiful In the old days when I first was coming up, you would turn up on set in the morning with your coffee, script, and hangover and you would figure out what you were going to do with the day and how you were going to play the scenes. You would rehearse and then invite the crew in to watch the actors go through the scenes. The actors would go away to makeup and costume and the director and the DP would work out how they were going to cover what the actors had just done. Paul Bettany hangover coffee morning 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. Paul Bettany naked clothes grace In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent. Paul Bettany opportunity europe america 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. Paul Bettany support earning children I come down as an actor and my marks are already laid out on the floor - somebody else organized what I'm going to do. I think, why am I here? And why I'm here is to express the words with some sort of vague emotion and make them seem real. I wanted to go back to how it was before. Paul Bettany actors real thinking
