Paul Bettany

There are lots of people that make movies. It's not just the director.

— Paul Bettany

I know great actors whom nothing has ever happened for.

— Paul Bettany

The only way one can guarantee one's loyalty is love. Loyalty is beyond logic, really.

— Paul Bettany

You can fudge a lot as an actor, but you can't fudge being a parent.

— Paul Bettany

My experience of people is that they are infinitely forgivable.

— Paul Bettany

You can end up living your life pretty incrementally, and that's boring.

— Paul Bettany

No one I know works in the industry. No, that's not true - Liv Tyler.

— Paul Bettany

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

— Paul Bettany

I'm a guy who is married to an actress, who has three children, and lives in Tribeca. Where do you draw the…

— Paul Bettany

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what…

— Paul Bettany

It's weird, because usually if you're British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and…

— Paul Bettany

I loved working with Peter Weir. I think he's one of the greats and will be remembered as one of the greats.

— Paul Bettany

I was bullied about everything, from the way I looked to the fact that my father had been a dancer.

— Paul Bettany

I don't enjoy watching action films, but I loved films like 'Rust and Bone' and 'The Beat That My Heart Skipped.'

— Paul Bettany

The trouble with talking about acting is that it's like sex. It's enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you…

— Paul Bettany

I have no interest in movies that take you somewhere dark and leave you there, for no reason.

— Paul Bettany

I was always waiting for the secret to be handed down to me. Ron Howard asked me what I was waiting for…

— Paul Bettany

I don't want to infantilize the actor; I want to empower the actor. Actors can be many things, but all of the…

— Paul Bettany

I simply don't understand the refugee crisis. The history of humanity can be told through a story of migration and settlement. If…

— Paul Bettany

The world is split into two kinds of people, those who would go out for a drink with John Lennon, and those…

— Paul Bettany

I learned so much about myself from reading this script and doing this movie [Shelter] because the level of judgment and the…

— Paul Bettany

My relationship with 'Star Wars' is that I'm old enough that I saw it when it first came out - 'A New…

— Paul Bettany

But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think…

— Paul Bettany

I think language is the most important thing that human beings have ever accomplished, and the only thing that's really going to…

— Paul Bettany

I never really took into account the number of homeless families. As a kid, we used to feed the hungry at my…

— Paul Bettany

In the old days when I first was coming up, you would turn up on set in the morning with your coffee,…

— Paul Bettany

Half of NYC's homeless populations are families.Homeless people have been ignored for too long. I'll just say this: If you are a…

— Paul Bettany

I do feel that scripts get developed now to a point where they're sort of actor-proof. If the actor is not very…

— Paul Bettany

People have suggested that perhaps we are too affluent to be telling this story, which is amazing to me because then I…

— Paul Bettany

An agent friend of mine who will remain nameless said you can't make a romance about homeless people; nobody wants to see…

— Paul Bettany

In marriage, there's a lot of ignoring each other, which is hard to fake on-screen.

— Paul Bettany

Paul is an awful name. I might as well be Bob.

— Paul Bettany

Yeah, I love history and I loved it as a kid.

— Paul Bettany

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

Doing the big budget films really makes you appreciate doing movies like Shelter. It's because this is like doing theater, you just…

— Paul Bettany

I really like telling stories. When I was a kid, I wanted to write songs. In quite a fundamental, gratifying, childish way,…

— Paul Bettany

I feel safe in saying this, and that is that Peter Weir is without a doubt one of the greatest filmmakers of…

— Paul Bettany

In a world of increasing grey areas, we are becoming more and more entrenched in black and white positions.

— Paul Bettany

I wanted to know as the director how the actors wanted to tell this story I wanted to know what they thought.

— Paul Bettany

Logic doesn't really provide for loyalty. If your logic changes suddenly and things not make sense, you can alter your allegiance, but…

— Paul Bettany