Karl Urban famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.
-- Karl Urban

#Film #Worthwhile #Enjoy
When you pick up a script and you can't stop reading it because it's a real page-turner, that's a good sign.
-- Karl Urban

#Real #Reading #Pages
There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then you see what the other players are giving to you. It's all about the transfer of energy between different actors.
-- Karl Urban

#Player #Giving #Energy
Nothing beats a great smile.
-- Karl Urban

#Smile #Beats
Yeah, I played video games on and off for quite a few years. I played Doom and was a fan of the game and that was my prime reason for doing the film.
-- Karl Urban

#Years #Games #Fans
I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting "Heaven" it was truly guerrilla film-making.
-- Karl Urban

#Fighting #Heaven #Energy
I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
-- Karl Urban

#Actors
I love fishing and surfing, and I work out every day.
-- Karl Urban

#Fishing #Work Out #Surfing
I was a fan of the 'Dredd' comics when I was a teenager.
-- Karl Urban

#Teenager #Fans
If I read a script and find it engaging and I start making choices in my mind on how to approach the work, than that's a good indication that it is something worth pursuing.
-- Karl Urban

#Choices #Mind #Scripts
Invest in yourself. It's like being a boxer, you've got to be in training so that when the bell rings, you get your direction you come out of the corner and you're *ready*. Do not let the audition be the first thing you've done in six months.
-- Karl Urban

#Training #Done #Bells
My philosophy is whatever you do, you've got to invest in yourself. If you don't, there are a lot of people out there who will get the job because they're more prepared than you.
-- Karl Urban

#Jobs #Philosophy #People
I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
-- Karl Urban

#Believe #Wife #Support
When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back.
-- Karl Urban

#Wings #Trying #Energy
There's only so much artistic output that I can actually expel at any one given time.
-- Karl Urban

#Artistic #Output #Given
That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.
-- Karl Urban

#Inspiration #Trying #Television
I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen.
-- Karl Urban

#Reality #Years #Theatre
I am in awe, in admiration of the man who Gaius Julius Caesar was. I don't actually do him as the man himself. He is maybe a distant relative. It's hard to approach the real man because he is such an awesome icon.
-- Karl Urban

#Real #Men #Icons
That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do.
-- Karl Urban

#Dream #Reality #Interesting
I decided to have a regular childhood and not pursue [acting] until I left school, although I wrote plays, directed plays, and got involved in theatre at school. When I left school I decided that's that I was going to pursue and gave it a crack.
-- Karl Urban

#School #Play #Childhood
It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's.
-- Karl Urban

#Mother #Age #Renaissance
I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think in essence what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.
-- Karl Urban

#Thinking #Essence #Benefits
I've turned down a lot of stuff. I've read several scripts and said "That's not me, I'm not interested in doing that." It's got to be something that inspires me and captures my imagination. I want to be able to say "There's a challenge.".
-- Karl Urban

#Book #Reading #Imagination

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