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Karl Urban
New Zealander
Actor
About the author
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,
New Zealander
Actor
#Want
#Film
#Work
#Being
#Television
#Losing
#Danger
#Inspiration
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,
New Zealander
Actor
#Work
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,
New Zealander
Actor
#Work
#Energy
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,
New Zealander
Actor
#Energy
#Giving
#Actors
#Aesthetics
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,
New Zealander
Actor
#Dream
#Facts
#Reality
It's such a small industry here you inevitably end up working with the same people over and over again. There are only so many actors to go around, which is good for us.
Karl Urban,
New Zealander
Actor
#People
#End
#Actors
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,
New Zealander
Actor
#Work
#End
#Television
#Vocation
#Reality
#Theatre
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,
New Zealander
Actor
#Film
#Pretty
#Fight
#Energy
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,
New Zealander
Actor
#Film
#Work
#Mother
#Age
#Production
#Company
Now I'm this far up the ladder and I've got so much farther to go with what I want to achieve with it.
Karl Urban,
New Zealander
Actor
#Want
#Now