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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. "
Gerard Butler
Love
Feel
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" I did spend a lot of my childhood playing out movie scenarios in my head. I'd walk along the road, pretending like I was in the army, talking on the radio, and doing maneuvers. I dreamt a lot about performing in movies and living in fantasies. "
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Walk
Doing
Movies
" I had to go and sing with the musical director of the film, Simon Lee, who is just incredible, and it went great. I sang with him about five things, things we'd worked on. And then I went to sing for Andrew Lloyd Weber. "
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Film
Go
" 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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Me
" 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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Everything
She
Memory
" I started singing for The Phantom in January, and we started filming in October and I sang all the way through to the next June. In fact, I was singing for about two months before I even knew I had the role. "
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Two
Way
Started
" As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things. "
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You
Work
Trying
" I wear a lot of Brioni and Ferragamo and Dolce, all of those kind of things. "
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Lot
Kind
Wear
" It's always more interesting to make a movie about what is relevant in your society. What's the political global backdrop? What are our threats? What are we vulnerable to? Because that's what an audience vibes on - that is what people are interested in, universally. "
Gerard Butler
Interesting
Society
Political
" I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom. "
Gerard Butler
Singing
Myself
Mask
" There's a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or an action-adventure or a real tough-guy role. "
Gerard Butler
Achievement
Action
Live
" 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. "
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Work
Best
Free
" 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. "
Gerard Butler
Right
New
Leather
" I've had broken bones and cuts and dashes and tears from movies, but when I was five, my mom put the biscuits up high so we wouldn't be helping ourselves. So, one day I asked to stand up on a chair to get a biscuit, and it fell, and the corner of the chair went right into the side of my eye, and it made a big hole in there. "
Gerard Butler
Eye
Day
Broken
" I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern. "
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Pretty
Famous
Born
" I was getting to bed about 10 P.M. so wound up and not getting to sleep by 11, and because I was putting the prosthetics on for five hours, I had to be up at 3 in the morning. "
Gerard Butler
Bed
Because
Hours
" 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. "
Gerard Butler
Professional
Time
Fun
" 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!' "
Gerard Butler
Thought
Sexy
People
" My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts. "
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Over
Agents
Go
" I had to prove myself to a lot of different people. "
Gerard Butler
Myself
Prove
People
" I have literally run into 20 people all around the world with my face tattooed on them. "
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Them
Run
People
" The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for. "
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Chance
You
Appreciated
" 9/11 was basically caused by box cutters, and that changed the world. "
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Box
Changed
Caused
" The problem with my mind is it sways from side to side. The idea of me fantasizing about becoming an actor quickly led to depression. 'No, it was never going to happen to me.' I was a sixteen-year-old kid on the other side of the world from where they made movies. Scottish actors never really got play. There was Sean Connery, and that was it. "
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Problem
Mind
Me
" It was always a dream as I was growing up. I would watch movies, mostly American movies, and be so engrossed in those stories, all I wanted to do was be there. I wanted to be part of that romance or that fantasy or be that warrior or that struggling soul who finally makes it good. "
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Growing Up
American
Dream
" Funnily enough, when I originally went in for my screen test, that set was already built. "
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Screen
Test
Set
" I love to spend a lot of time on my own. I can seriously go into my own head and often love to let myself travel where I don't know where I'm going. "
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I Can
Love
Myself
" By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surprised that the windows didn't shatter. And after the third session, I really didn't know where this voice had come from. "
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Singing
Mean
Know
" '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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Train
Career
Own
" I always find stuff in my characters to relate to. "
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Find
Stuff
" Manscaping and all of that is not my thing. I'm more of the Clint Eastwood kind of guy. "
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