Gerard Butler Quotes

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Gerard Butler

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 13, 1969

I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.

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The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for.

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To me, it's always good to retain a sense of wonder and never good too big for life, like you've seen it all before.

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I go to Scotland maybe three times a year, and I love it. When I'm at home, I feel at home, I feel myself, I feel connected.

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Ever since I was a child, I have loved being the centre of attention, but similarly, I can't remember a time in my life that I haven't battled with all sorts of quandaries, fears and weaknesses.

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I had to prove myself to a lot of different people.

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I love a girl with a good sense of humour, who is confident but who has a sweetness to her - that melts my heart.

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I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.

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In Scotland, I'm just like a lot of other guys, but in America, I'm seen as a very strong, masculine guy.

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Manscaping and all of that is not my thing. I'm more of the Clint Eastwood kind of guy.

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My overwhelming memory of being a child is the huge amount of love I felt for my mum. She was my everything, because she was both my mum and my dad.

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'300' was a real turning point in my career. Until then, I felt like a steam train that was slowly chugging to the top of a hill. Now I'm over that hill, my career seems to have its own momentum.

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When I'm 80 and sagging all over, I can tell my grandkids, 'Look, when I was a lad, 'People' magazine thought I was sexy!'

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When I was a vocalist, a lead singer in a rock band, I was a law student at the time. It wasn't a professional rock band, it was for fun. I was already way out of that by the time Phantom came along. Having to learn to sing, it was such duress, having to really try and get to such a quality.

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Choosing the right mask helps you... We went through many masks. It was very particular leather that as soon as you smudged it, you had to get a new one. We went through about 55 masks.

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My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts.

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I wear a lot of Brioni and Ferragamo and Dolce, all of those kind of things.

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Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons.

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Angelina came up, and as soon as we said hello, I thought, This is going to be great. I'm really going to love doing this with her. And I did. And then I was very excited to do the movie after that.

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Funnily enough, when I originally went in for my screen test, that set was already built.

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