Top 100 Joel Edgerton Quotes
#1. I oftentimes find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.
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#2. Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas on the screen. You can't hide behind some other person's script; you're saying, 'This is my brain, and I want you to know what I think'.'
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#3. In Australia, there aren't a lot of people committed to art, so these communities form that are dedicated to music, theater, cinema, but they're very small. So, they tend to move ahead on the power of collaboration, enthusiasm and creativity.
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#4. I love so much what I do that I spend so much time thinking about it, and then I go home, and then I'm thinking about it, so it's nice sometimes when a movie is over, and then the niggling feelings about whether you've did it right or not start to ebb away.
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#5. I've signed four autographs for Sam Worthington in L.A., and I haven't told any of the people that I'm not him.
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#6. 'The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me.
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#7. I wanted to make a redemptive thriller that didn't end with some kind of big, crazy shootout and blood spill, but more of a collision of ideas and a discussion of ethics.
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#8. I just love good movies. And not every movie you're going to end up in is always going to turn out right, but at least walk into it with the right intention.
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#9. Whenever you're trying to do your own take on a classic piece of literature, it's almost like you're trying to swim up your own stream or drive down your own path.
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#10. I wanted to make a movie that was kind of a tribute to the way I feel when I watch a John Hughes movie.
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#11. I don't call acting a real job, and writing is a hobby.
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#12. I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock on a personality, even just in life, and then they'll shock you by their behavior.
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#13. Cultures render their icons in their own image. Which comes down to vanity, in some sense.
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#14. Pittsburgh felt like the perfect size of a city to me. There's enough to do, but it's not like living in a circus. I also really loved how sports-enthusiastic Pittsburgh people are: how proud of their sports they are.
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#15. I reckon I would be able compare anything to anything else if you gave me enough time.
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#16. Part of the privilege of being an actor is the people you get to work with.
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#17. I think the life of an actor is very glamorous to other people - then, realities set in.
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#18. I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.
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#20. I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was out of necessity in the beginning. Over time, I began to see that I could create the roles I wanted to play rather than just waiting around.
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#21. We are people in circumstances who make choices that we think are right at the time.
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#22. When people are really great at what they do there is no aggression because they are comfortable in their own skin. They know themselves well enough that you don't have anything to prove.
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#23. Basically you want as many people as possible to see your movie.
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#24. I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.
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#25. Gavin O'Connor, I'd walk into a fire for that guy. He's a brilliant filmmaker and a passionate man.
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#26. I don't appreciate, really, talking to journalists when there's a sense of wanting to kick up dust to sell more papers or get more hits on their Internet site.
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#28. I've never seen a film get away completely unscathed like I have 'Animal Kingdom.' There's not a single bad review that I've read of it yet; all through Sundance, all it got was high praise.
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#29. Polo is like playing golf with a saddle, and there are a lot of moving parts.
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#30. It's an incredibly liberating feeling to have a skirt on. In fact, I know you can buy skirts, and you can buy work kilts and all sorts of stuff.
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#31. I tend to take on a lot of things. And then they all just seem to happen at once. Or maybe I'm not good at saying 'No'. But the juggling's fun.
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#32. I'm really great at making terrible analogies.
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#33. Actors are excused from a lot of things, and we get away with a lot ... I find it equally interesting and exciting as it is disgusting and bizarre.
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#34. People love boxing, but you've gotta wait two or three years for your favorite boxer to have a fight.
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#35. I'm the great-great-grandson of a sheep stealer.
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#36. I love the idea of real-life experiences finding their way into fiction. I think that's really cool.
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#37. I'm not saying I'm a family guy, but maybe that's what people see in me: some kind of paternal quality.
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#38. I have always stuck to my guns about what I want from the work and what interests me. I've never been seduced down the evil path. The path of taking the money.
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#39. Having rain on your tuxedo is a pretty good reminder that you're not James Bond.
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#40. If, at the end of the day, I can look back and see pictures of all the characters I've played, and there's a smorgasbord of weirdos and interesting, odd, different characters, I'd be so happy.
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#41. I'd never really imagined myself as an action star.
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#42. All I can say is working with Ridley Scott is a dream come true.
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#43. Even to this day, when I think about the fact that I'm in this 'Star Wars' world, that I'm a half-brother to Darth Vader and an uncle to Luke Skywalker, it's too hard to wrap my head around.
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#44. There's never been a mathematical equation that says a good experience making a movie equates to a good movie, or a bad experience on a set is going to lead to a bad movie.
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#45. The sum total of all my stop-starts have made me less concerned about the future. I'm just aware now that I'll always land on my feet somehow.
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#46. I operate under the theory that all publicity is good publicity, and then, if that theory doesn't work, you just say that any newspaper article ends up on the bottom of the parrot cage. But, of course, you can't line a parrot cage with Internet bloggers, can you?
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#47. Everybody's a mix of good and bad choices that they make.
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#48. Sometimes, what's not said is just as important to the writing as what is said. As a writer, we have our voices heard. I think that, at oftentimes, the ability to allow the dialogue to recede properly into the world of the film is also a really valid sort of way to be a writer, I think.
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#49. The nature of human beings is that we're competitive, and the chances are there's someone out there who's going to work harder than you and want it more than you.
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#50. I have this theory that alpha males are actually not alpha males. They're actually very scared - particularly scared of competition from a lot of men.
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#51. Fighting in the ring or cage is very much different from fighting in the street. Fighting in the street is very much fueled by anger, pride, and male dominance and ego.
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#53. I think, often with Australian films, if an Australian film has been given the seal of approval by an offshore festival or an offshore release, then it does mean a lot to a local audience.
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#54. One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.
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#55. I think it's great to be able to go and watch a short film before you watch a feature.
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#56. I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to fiction.
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#57. Getting the call from Ridley Scott made me think that sometimes you just need to go to work.
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#58. I think the great thing about religion is it's there to teach us the good path and that we're all equal, that we should be treated as such.
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#59. Australians and the British are very similar: If you try and stand out in any way, and you try to reach for success, someone is gonna be there to cut you down.
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#60. As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.
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#62. Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.
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#63. It's funny how sometimes you learn things off the Internet before they're actually told to you.
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#64. I don't necessarily see myself as an experienced filmmaker just because I've been in a few movies.
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#66. To me, 'Warrior' was a real turning point - probably one of the greatest experiences I've ever had as an actor on set.
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#67. I was raised Catholic, and I remember in all the pamphlets and pictures we'd look at, Jesus was basically blonde with blue eyes. He kind of looked like Jared Leto.
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#69. Gene Hackman was a superstar in the '70s - with that face!
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#70. The tricky thing becomes: Do you know yourself well enough to then portray that on screen? And for me, I find that really hard. I'd rather hide behind accents and funny walks.
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#71. You've got to be really careful that you're not falling into the Hollywood trap, you know?
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#72. Actors want to act; actors want to emote. It's like the emotional equivalent of tearing your shirt off and screaming to the heavens: you want to express, and you want to be seen to be expressing.
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#73. The little bit of buzz around 'Warrior' led to a lot of opportunities anyway, before the movie even came out.
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#74. It's weird: I don't see myself as a tough guy.
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#75. I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.
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#77. That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about.
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#78. I blame my work for a lot of things. I thank my work for a lot of things, too, but the trouble with being so passionately involved in work is that it becomes like a lover, like your partner, because it nourishes you.
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#79. Sometimes I just wonder if I'm being led by variety. If one film leads me down one path, sometimes I just want to turn around and head the opposite way for the next project. I hope that's not the case, but sometimes I suspect that.
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#80. To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments.
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#81. When you're constantly involved in domination, what you're really looking for is constant highs.
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#82. Some of us are better at owning the responsibility of our actions than others.
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#83. The best jujitsu practitioners are really serene and grounded.
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#84. I think the life of an actor is glamorous to other people, but then the reality sets in: you don't know where you will be next year or how long you'll be there for.
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#85. I find it strange when people can't relate to kids, because you were a kid once, you know?
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#86. The last TV show I binged on was 'Hannibal' because it stars two of my friends, Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy, who I first met filming 'King Arthur' back in 2003, and I just lapped this show up; loved it.
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#87. There's a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don't get in touch with.
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#88. Really, no-one is bad except for serial killers and dictators.
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#89. There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.
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#90. One of the great joys of being able to write something you can make, if you get certain actors you want and love, you're kind of buying yourself a front row seat to watch them work.
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#91. If I'm going to work for twelve hours a day, I want twelve hours of awesomeness!
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#93. Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work.
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#94. I think I'd be too scared to direct my first movie and put myself in the center.
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#95. I just don't want to do crap movies, man, because I just love that I can get up and talk about them and talk to journalists about stuff that I'm really proud of.
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#97. What makes a really great fighter is a combination of ingredients: one is everything physical that you can do, and the other is what's mentally there for you. And I think that comes down to how big your heart is and what's driving you.
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#98. I wasted too much time in my twenties. I worked, but I would do theater in the evening, and during the day I would surf and do irascible things. And then, for some reason, as I got closer to my thirties, I thought, 'Okay Joel, you've wasted enough time.'
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#99. I have a lot of ideas that I feel are half-formed, or half-way okay.
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#100. The recipe for any character is always very interesting, as far as what doses of certain qualities you want.
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