Eric Bana Quotes

I've given no thought to moving to America at all.

The thing I love about working with first-time directors is that it's always quite shocking how little difference there is between them and directors who've been directing all their lives.

I'm very much a bit of a ghost presence.

I don't like to come at my character from some really technical place.

The more I love the character, the harder it is to get it wrong. I have to get to a point that I can speak for them.

I never look at the size of the film when I'm looking for a part.

I really enjoy working on small films.

I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me.

Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation. It's measurable - unlike acting.

I like the unknown. I like mystery.

I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way.

I guess subconsciously that all the great people you work with have an influence on you.

I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it's just a big play.

A girl's got to be fun. It's the one bit of advice I always give to friends of mine who are thinking of getting married.

I deliberately fly in and out of LA for as small a time as humanly possible.

I always find that 90% of the performance, for me, is about what comes from inside.

As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.

I think there are times when you walk onto a set you can potentially be either intimidated or distracted by what's going on around you.

I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a much harder thing to bottle. If you have both, you're in pretty good shape.

I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there.

I've always described parts as tattoos. For actors our tattoos are in the form of films.

By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way.

I occasionally go to the gym and I lift free weights, I don't use machines.