Noah Taylor Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Acting's pretty much just a job - the wrong reason to do it, I think.

Actually, I'm a pretty physical type of person.

And aboriginal land rights and aboriginal issues are quite important to me.

And I feel closer to a vagrant or street person than I do anything else, usually, so I don't know - it's kind of odd.

And, I guess at the end of the day, a lot of my favorite films are American films, really.

Arabic music, I like instrumental stuff - people like Ennio Morricone.

But I like doing comedy a lot - it doesn't take itself so seriously, and it's just more fun to do.

But I'm equally at home on the couch.

But it seems to me I'm always leading out a sort of a weird, lonely life - traveling always.

But mainly I just don't like acting students.

But, I'm a big Johnny Cash and a big Lou Reed fan and a Fellini fan.

Documentaries I wouldn't mind doing.

I don't actually go to the cinema a whole lot these days.

I don't have any interest in romantic stuff.

I feel very uncomfortable doing any romantic sort of stuff, just because my own love life is so depressing, I guess.

I go through periods of being a serious painter.

I guess the world seems to be more of a violent, immoral place since organized religion doesn't really have such a grip on Western culture.

I had real trouble reading music, and I would sort of fake my way through orchestra rehearsals.

I just sort of take it as it comes.

I just wanted to get out of Australia for awhile too.

I know you won't believe it, but I used to do boxing and karate and stuff like that.

I lead a kind of strange life that sort of obliterates any of the other stuff.

I like a lot of the paintings you find in places like Haiti, or voodoo art.

I really like Tarantino's films, and I like old American films, and a lot of the young independent American films... I really can't think of specific names.

I sort of enjoy it when I'm doing it at the time, but, if I could do anything else and make a living from it, I certainly wouldn't do it, I don't think.

I think I would have pursued music and painting a bit more. And I feel I'll never be happy unless I try and follow through on that one day.

I think I'm from the last pinball generation.

I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization.

I think studying anything is beneficial.

I think there are techniques to be learned from acting classes.

I was very big Lou Reed fan when I was younger, but that's the closest I've ever been to being a fan as such.

I went to a high school that had a very big music department.

I wouldn't want to do four of this kind of movie in a row and I wouldn't want to do four films like Shine in a row; it's just too taxing.

I'm just looking for small character roles, really.

I'm not a Nick Cave fan.

I'm not going do one thing at a time like play music or paint or act, but I can't seem to do them all at once.

I'm not very good at planning my career.

I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know?

I've been going to Italy quite a bit the last couple of years. That's definitely my favorite place.

If I had a choice I wouldn't do anything at all, really.

It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.

It's not really cool to be famous in Australia.

It's only because I supposedly look like Nick Cave they make some sort of weird connection that's really dumb.

It's such a small population in Australia, and I think there is potential and more opportunity here to work on more of a variety of things.

It's very hard to make any money acting in Australia.

Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.

No, I was a very lazy classical music student.

So, I guess I started playing guitar from about 16.

So, I'm going to go to New York and I'm going to have to get a dialogue coach to learn the accent.

Some jobs, you go in knowing the purpose you're serving.

That's the thing that frustrates me about acting, I guess, because it's really not something I've ever been passionate about and I'm really kind of angry at myself that I hadn't pursued either art or painting or music.

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.

Well, basically this is the only way I know how to make a living.

Well, I really wanted to do independent films.

Well, I'm not really good with money.

While everyone else was doing that, I was napping and smoking cigarettes.

Yeah, I'm starting a production company with Richard Lowenstein.

You're not sitting at home, wrenching your soul about what you're going to do tomorrow - although, sometimes, it's nice to do that.