Gerard Butler Quotes: His Top Ten Best Quotations & Sayings

Gerard Butler has become one of the hottest leading men in Hollywood. This means that everybody wants to know what he has to say. So far, Butler has kept most of his personal views to himself, but he has opened up enough to provide us with a few quotes. Most of best quotes are only about Hollywood and acting, but there are a couple that give a glimpse of insight into the man he is and why. Here are Gerard Butler's top ten best quotations so far.

Gerard Butler's view on Hollywood's love affair with re-makes

"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."

Gerard Butler quote on stunts

"I love doing the stunts. It's as simple as that."

Band of lawyers

"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."

Quote on preparing for The Phantom

"I went from somebody who didn`t sing to somebody who didn`t speak."

Gerard Butler quote about his dad

"I spent many years not knowing where my dad was... Not knowing if my dad was alive, even. He turned up when I was 16 out of the blue."

Gerard Butler quote on his singing

"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."

American men not so masculine

"In Scotland I'm just like a lot of other guys, but in America I'm seen as a very strong, masculine guy."

Quote on being a loner

"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. I always felt that that was his kind of form of escape, in a way."

Gerard Butler's mom brings him down to Earth

"I go home and they'll cook Christmas ­dinner, and she's like, 'C'mon, give a hand, come on, wash the dishes or put the dishes away.' And I'm like, 'Mom, I am a major Hollywood movie star, I can't be doing this. It's embarrassing.'"

Wants a kid. Kinda.

"I saw this movie [How To Train Your Dragon] and thought 'Wow, I would really like an animated kid.'"

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