Emory Cohen Quotes
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I'm just trying to be Emory Cohen.
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There are shows that have been prematurely canceled, but I don't know if 'Smash' was one of them.
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I'll play a happy character, but most characters are driven by a pain or a fear. They are driven by something deep down, and most people are like that in the sense. And so, that's what interests me.
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I love a good loser.
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It's not like every actor needs to train, but an actor will either develop their process through training or through working.
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I told my father I wanted to act, and he stared renting all these classic films for me to watch.
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If I wanted to play it safe, I'd get a normal job with a secure paycheck.
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I am constantly interested in people who society calls 'bad' because I don't like to just buy into something that everybody's going to say. I want to investigate that for myself. With a character, you get to fully investigate that emotionally and understand the parts of them that are in pain and scared and are good. That's human.
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When it comes to a love story, you're like, 'I've been in love before.' So it's closer to you than the other stuff, and for me, that can be less comfortable.
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I'm glad I chose more vulnerable work about what is love and what is freedom and those kinds of things. But there's something innate in me where I always come back to characters with an edge.
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I'm shying away from getting lost in really bad movies for really good money.
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I'm a fourth-generation New Yorker. My family has been in New York for many, many years.
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Everyone's inspired by Brando. When I started acting, my dad showed me 'On the Waterfront,' and I thought, 'That's the coolest guy I've ever seen.'
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I really respect people who are just getting by with their 9 to 5s.
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I'm zero to a hundred in almost every facet of my life.
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The old joke in my family is that the last person who isn't from New York was coming from Russia.
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Toronto is a special city, and the environment is perfect for the arts; free and alive. I'm a New Yorker, and Toronto reminds me of a much cleaner New York, so it's like coming home after your mom just cleaned your room for you; for me that's a lovely environment.
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'House of a Thousand Corpses' by Rob Zombie - I love that movie. I really do.
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After I did 'Brooklyn,' I did about five or six violent films in one way or another, and not always with me being the bad guy, but something violent about it to keep the street cred up, really.
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When I'm playing a bad guy, a lot of it is imagined: things I thought I wanted to do, but I never would do them.
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My family has artists, but they are all working artists. They are not movie stars. They don't get paid. I really respect that blue-collared ideology where they're just trying to make a living.
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The hardest thing is for me to let the work go and let myself just live. Every actor is different; they each have their own strengths and weaknesses; trust and ease are mine.
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I was 16 when I linked up with my manager - first person I ever auditioned for - and I've been in this ever since.
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I want to do a rom-com. For me, where I come from, it would be such a stretch.