Joel Edgerton Quotes

There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.

Joel Edgerton

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• Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.

  

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• I would love to work with the great movie actors of our time.

  

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• Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.

  

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• Coal mining is an industry rife with mismanagement, corruption, greed and an almost blatant disregard for the safety, health and quality of life of its work force. Everyone knows this. Everyone has always known it.

  

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• I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.

  

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• I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.

  

  Dan Harmon
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• Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling – I can so well remember it. There was always something more – behind and beyond everything – to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.

  

  Kate Greenaway
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• I like to control my own personal life.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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• I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century.

  

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• Astronomers have been bewildered by the theory of an expanding universe, but there is no less expansion in the moral infinite of the universe of man. As far as the frontiers of science are pushed back, over the extended arc of these frontiers one will hear the poet's hounds on the chase.

  

  Saint-John Perse
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• Of course, it's a dream to go to Mars. I want to find out whether there was life there or not. And if there was, then why did it die out? What sort of catastrophe happened?

  

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• I come from the bottom of the ladder. I'm from Norwich. Not many people seem to know about it.

  

  Sam Claflin
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• A dry stretch of commentary in the middle of an 'Anchorman' movie would have been a terrible thing.

  

  Adam McKay
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• There's no sense in doing something, especially if it's a hard job, if you can't have a little fun.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• If I had to control what I was speaking, it would be a chore. Right now I just feel I've got my shoes off, everybody comes in, I talk. If I was an actor it could be a problem, but right now I just talk all the crap, I can badmouth anybody I want, I can say what I want and move on.

  

  Tarsem Singh
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• I'm a terrible cook, but I make very good lobster salad.

  

  Nancy Carell
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• I believe that a government has only one religion - India first. A government has only one holy book - our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion - towards nation.

  

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• I think that, ultimately, there are so many characters in G.I. Joe that even all the iterations - the comics and the different cartoons and everything - have been a big ensemble. Lots of crossing storylines and stuff.

  

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• Why do I live in Israel? Because Israel lives in me, as it lives in all Jews. It is who we are. And those of us lucky enough to recognize this truth and embrace it in all its fullness and depth are the luckiest Jews in the world.

  

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• When it comes to MMA, there is a big chip on my shoulder. There is a way that I look at myself. I think it's really, really important, and it's something I'm not really apologetic for it. As I get older, and I win more, I start to embrace it even more.

  

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• Adolescents tend to be passionate people, and passion is no less real because it is directed toward a hot-rod, a commercialized popular singer, or the leader of a black-jacketed gang.

  

  Edgar Friedenberg
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• I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.

  

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• I was born with a heart murmur. When I was 21, the stress of the career and traveling - the lack of sleep and just not eating right - had taken its toll. Our schedules had been pretty crazy for about three years, and there was no rest at all. So in order to continue on and, you know, have a life, I had to fix it.

  

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• There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.

  

  Joel Edgerton