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Gerard Butler Biography

Gerard James Butler (born 13 November 1969) is a Scottish actor, producer, and singer.

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I appreciate and love women for many reasons, tall and small, plump and skinny, and crazy and demure. I see beauty in all of them.

And Love, Appreciate, Beauty, Crazy, Plump

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.

Looks, Stories, Studio, Ugliness, Upset

The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified with so powerfully. From the first second that I walked on to perform.

Firsts, Music, Perform, Phantoms, Role, Roles

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.

Cynical, Hollywood, Purely, Think, Thinking, World

When I was 12, I was in Oliver! at a theater in Glasgow.

Glasgow, Oliver, Theater

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.

Helping, Leather, Mask, Masks, Right

Wilbur brought the vision and Rodney executed it.

Brought, Executed, Rodney, Vision, Wilbur

[How to train your dragon] is beautiful to look at and, again, those values that it contains about relationships, friendships, and bonding in the face of ignorance.

Beautiful, Contains, Dragons, Friendships, Ignorance, Train

In actual fact, I wanted to be an actor, but I was a lawyer, and I was a week away from qualifying and was fired. And that's the day I made an announcement: "Hey, for seven years, you thought I was going to be a lawyer. Well, I'm not. I've just lost my job, and I'm packing my bags and moving to London tomorrow to be an actor. "

Jobs, Moving, Seven, Tomorrow, Years

So many actors get caught up in their technique, and to be honest, I see it really getting in the way. I see them forcing things. I definitely do my best work when I'm free of that. But I think as an actor, I work really hard in preparing the roles. I spend like 90 percent of my waking moments walking around thinking: "What does this character do? What is his relationship with so-and-so?" Always, really. Too much!

Character, Honest, Like, Preparing, Thinking

Iceland is 50 percent Celtic blood, from the females that they stole from us, which is why our country has only got dogs left. It was a joke! I'll never be let back in Scotland again!

Back, Blood, Celtic, Country, Dog, Stole

It's so incredible when you meet somebody who comes up and passionately tells you how much they liked you in a movie, or how much they liked thamovie. That's a great thing, because I know what I get out of watching a great movie. So I love what I do, but it's more - I don't think there'd be anybody who would tell you that, even if it's something they love doing, they don't get stressed out by it. I'm a very intense person, so I go very intensely and passionately into what I do.

Incredibles, Intensely, Liked, Meet, Stressed, Thinking

Lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten.

Abiding, Blood, Forgotten, Lessons

When I start a movie, I already feel like I'm in it. I'm not a jobbing actor anymore; most of the films I do, I'm involved with development. Some, I've taken from scratch, and worked so heavily on the script, I'm embodying a lot of the character by the time I even get close to filming, because I've asked so many of the questions that I do. There is nothing better than being able to ask all the questions, do all the work. It's when you let it go that you fly.

Character, Embodying, Let It Go, Movie, Taken

I love to do films of all shapes and sizes and feelings and genres. So for me to go from Tomb Raider straight into Dear Frankie, there's nothing that excites me more than to keep mixing it up.

Feelings, Keep, Mixing, Shapes

When I went to Scotland to do another movie, I would sing with a coach up there and then when I went to New York I sang with a coach over there-I mean I've now sung with coaches in LA, New York, London, Glasgow, St Louis and Rio de Janeiro!

Glasgow, Mean, Movie, New York, Scotland, Sung

I mean, I made The Phantom, although The Phantom was, believe it or not, an independent film. It was just a very large, expensive independent film.

Although, Believe, Expensive, Independent, Mean

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.

Guitar, Law, Lawyer, Lead, Training, Worked

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

Already, Built, Enough, Set, Test, Tests

I always find stuff in my characters to relate to.

Character, Characters, Relate, Stuff

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