“I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist. I think religion does a lot for us but I can't quite believe it, alas... It's just a personal choice. I love the idea of heaven though. Who doesn't? It's lovely.” ThinkingBelieveDoeI CanIdeasAgeChoicesThreeHeavenCatholicAtheistLovelyAlasNunPersonal Choice Author:Paul Bettany
“But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God its fantastic.” IfsThinkingMenFeelsLittlesLostHoursHe ManInvolvedArchitectureFantasticSmallestChapel Author: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 get us all out of the troubles that we find ourselves in.” ThinkingHumansImportantLanguageHuman BeingsTroubleImportant ThingsAccomplished Author:Paul Bettany
“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.” ThinkingRealSeemsWantedActorsEmotionMarkOrganizedVague Author:Paul Bettany
“You'll still work with some directors where that doesn't happen, and sometimes it's out of necessity because you're in a really complicated, choreographed fight scene and the whole thing is being prevised in a computer, so it's been decided months before, but I think that's sneaking into the way action scenes are shot.” ThinkingWayStillsSometimesWholeHappensActionFightingMonthsSceneDirectorsComputerShotsDecidedComplicated Author:Paul Bettany
“I feel like the world we live in seems to be full of an increasingly grey area, but the culture that we live in seems to be getting really entrenched in black and white positions, and I think it's urgent to talk about that because it's going to kill us all.” ThinkingWorldFeelsSeemsCultureBlackWhitePositionAreasBlack And WhiteGreyUrgentGrey Areas Author: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 them kiss. And I thought, what a repulsive, repugnant, extraordinary thing to say. I had to think about the fact that the world is probably full of other people who feel like that. The very idea that we spend time trying to humanize humans is extraordinary to me.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantFeelsTryingHumansSaidIdeasFactsRomanceMinesKissingExtraordinaryAgentsHomelessEnd TimesSpend TimeNamelessExtraordinary ThingsHomeless People Author:Paul Bettany
“The only thing I think I can be accused of about paparazzi is being really naive. I didnt think about it coming along with the job and I never, during my three years at drama school, fantasized about one bit of it.” ThinkingYearsI CanSchoolJobsThreeBitsDramaThree YearsBeing RealNaiveAccusedPaparazzi Author:Paul Bettany
“I'm sure some people have an absolute grasp of where they are in their careers. I just don't think about it that much.” PeopleThinkingCareersAbsolutes Author:Paul Bettany
“I think when you're trying to produce a relationship on screen that doesn't actually exist, perhaps sometimes there's a temptation to look at each other more, to touch each other more...” ThinkingTryingLooksSometimesProduceScreensTemptation Author:Paul Bettany
