Sam Worthington Quotes & Sayings

I sign on to any project because of the director: because they won't change, and you've got to feel confident that you're in good hands, in their vision. — Sam Worthington

I like to play board games a lot with my girl, things like that. We attempt to cook. And even if it goes wrong, it doesn't matter because it's the time you spend doing it that's important. — Sam Worthington

All you need in any industry is someone to back you, and Jim Cameron backed me up. — Sam Worthington

When I do my job, I dive into these characters and try to flush something out of myself into these characters, and hopefully that translates well. — Sam Worthington

When you're working with friends, unless the material is right, our friendship could end. — Sam Worthington

I like the Kardashians. I watch 'em. When Kim got the botox in her face, and it made her face go weepy, that was funny. I also watch 'America's Next Top Model.' I've always been a big fan. — Sam Worthington

I do believe any hero is a person that can be knocked down. A failure isn't a person who gets knocked down; a failure is a person who stays down, and to me, the great heroes take the beating, get knocked down and stand back up again. Perseus is defined as one of the great heroes in literature, so you gotta take that on board. — Sam Worthington

I've got to challenge myself more, and not listen to anybody else, and not listen to any media or bloggers, but just listen to myself. I've got to push myself. If I don't believe I'm growing, and I believe I'm just coasting, then I've got to get off the train. If I feel I'm growing, I have to keep going. It's a long marathon. — Sam Worthington

I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for. — Sam Worthington

Each job you have has it's own challenges. One of the great things about my job, is that each film is a different journey. — Sam Worthington

People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances. — Sam Worthington

Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that. — Sam Worthington

I'm Australian! How much more alpha can you get? — Sam Worthington

Patriots is quite simple; there's seven continents in the world, if you had to sacrifice one continent and make it six would you do it? — Sam Worthington

I'm doing the same thing and it's a hundred times bigger and a hundred times better. So if your going to make a computer game off a movie, is it going to be like "Avatar" where it's going to be a prequel before Jake even got to the planet. You've got to be smart because audiences demand that. — Sam Worthington

I don't mind running; I don't mind taking a few knocks. But hopefully, it's just not 'Sam's an action dude.' That, to me, is not what I wanted. I wanted to bring a sense of weight and emotionality of doing Australian films and bring that into a bigger blockbuster, so you're not just kind of grunting and groaning and running around. — Sam Worthington

Everything is backwards now, like out there is the true world, and in here is the dream. — Sam Worthington

You spend five months filming in outer space and saving the world, and suddenly that kind of family unit and story disappears, and you come crashing back down to Earth, and you have to do your own washing ... and most actors are insecure that the last job they did will be their last job ever. — Sam Worthington

Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more. — Sam Worthington

My private life stays private. — Sam Worthington

I hate downtime. — Sam Worthington

I went to drama school with John Schwarz and Mike's his younger brother, so he tends to just hang out, that's it. So we're a pretty tight bunch of guys, they do whatever they do and they're my brothers basically. — Sam Worthington

Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud. — Sam Worthington

Any actor wants their movies and their work to be seen. You don't make a movie or get into this profession for your work not to be seen and just to show them to your mates at home. — Sam Worthington

I love my job; I love the world that it is. But I don't want someone who is just in love with that world. I want to be with someone who is in love with me, warts and all. — Sam Worthington

Actors get to go to these amazing worlds. In 'Terminator,' I was a cyborg with feelings; in 'Avatar,' I lived for 15 months on a fantastical planet, and in 'Clash of the Titans,' I get to fight a scorpion the size of a dump truck. It's a bizarre job, but you explore yourself. — Sam Worthington

A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again. — Sam Worthington

I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that's a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That's my job. — Sam Worthington

I installed anti-rust roofing into homes in Cairns. I packed boxes at Baby Barn. I was even a Manny! Mate, I know more about braiding hair and My Little Pony than most men, I can tell ya. — Sam Worthington

I don't have a real home. When I got 'Avatar,' I sold everything that I owned because I knew it was going to be a long journey. I've got two bags, and that was four years ago, and I've been working ever since, and I've still only got two bags - a bag of books and a bag of clothes. That's about it. — Sam Worthington

I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it. — Sam Worthington

I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.' — Sam Worthington

I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive. — Sam Worthington

One of the best movies of the year was 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes.' That's not just an action movie - it's a prison film. — Sam Worthington

If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors. — Sam Worthington

Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man. — Sam Worthington

When I was in my 20s, I thought I knew who I was. And then as soon as I turned 30, I realized that person has bruises and bumps and dark parts. And you kind of go, well, that's it. I'd rather embrace it than force myself to change. — Sam Worthington

You've always got to be smart enough to go 'Well they're going to have to bring some of their own in'. We don't want to be a monopoly where we get shoved out, it has to be symbiotic. — Sam Worthington

Some actors can create characters and leave them at 'Cut!', but I work the opposite way and drag them out of me. For me, it's about fixing your fabric to fit the role. — Sam Worthington

I'm looking for things where, like with 'Ten,' I don't look like me, and I'm playing something a bit different. I'm just trying to flex a different muscle and see if it works. I've saved the world and killed monsters and done all that. Now I want to try something a bit different and a bit more challenging. — Sam Worthington

You help families focus on the future through their children. — Sam Worthington

Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors. — Sam Worthington

When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine. — Sam Worthington

You get to go and play with the big boys, it's a very privileged thing for us to do. So I'm sure we have more ideas than what I actually have time for. — Sam Worthington

To film in water is three times harder than just on land. — Sam Worthington

The acting came about because of a girl. I was 19 and met a girl who wanted to go to the premiere drama school in Australia, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, where Mel Gibson, Cate Blanchett and many others went. She had an audition, and I went with her for moral support - to cheer her on. I did an audition my way, and it kept going. — Sam Worthington

Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances. — Sam Worthington

To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense ... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired. — Sam Worthington

When I was young, my parents were these titanic, infallible figures. But Mum's illness and Dad's battles with diabetes and heart attacks had a ripple effect on me - reminding me of my own mortality and that these illnesses are genetic. — Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it. — Sam Worthington

It's a fine line. If you withhold too much, you come across as wooden - as I've often been described in some movies. Fair enough. I believe that the best performances are the ones that an audience has to search for. — Sam Worthington

Every actor fears unemployment - even me. — Sam Worthington

I think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you're out of the movie. — Sam Worthington

If you look at the whole world now it's just computer games, graphic novels, film, TV spinoffs, spinoffs of spinoffs like Deadpool spinning off of Wolverine. So I think that any kind of smart producer looks at all of those bases. Once it comes down to the integrity of it audiences are very smart, they smell that they're just kind of being played. — Sam Worthington

In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork. — Sam Worthington

A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right. — Sam Worthington

I think any actor who talks in beatings-up is just talking himself up. I tend to not bring them up. — Sam Worthington

You can write whatever you want about me in websites and newspapers, but no one really knows me. They get the idea that I'm a tough, heroic figure, but I'm a sensitive pussycat. — Sam Worthington

Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus. — Sam Worthington

Clothes have memories, and sometimes you don't want to remember. People remember where they bought the clothes, who gave them, or where they stole them from. — Sam Worthington

The high mountains are barren, but the low valleys are covered over with corn; and accordingly the showers of God's grace fall into lowly hearts and humble souls. — Sam Worthington

I don't mind being in studios, and I don't mind being out in nature. They're two different ways of making movies. — Sam Worthington

My dad had to work for everything in his life; so did my mum: she cleaned people's houses and looked after old people. You can be complacent and sit on the couch and complain about the dreams that you missed. Get off the couch! — Sam Worthington

The spirit that America has, the American industry creativity it has where anything is possible. Three idealistic Australians bringing in new ideas and being able to make the damn comic books that they've always dreamed about, it's kind of a cool thing. — Sam Worthington

I've done a lot of roles where I'm the hero saving the planet. — Sam Worthington

I do movies I would go to see. — Sam Worthington

I want a movie to be satisfying for an audience. That sense of having to get it done, no matter what cost, is what I like. — Sam Worthington