Joel Edgerton Quotes
I don't want at the end of my life to look back at just a bunch of fictional movies I was involved in that kept taking me away from the real world.
Quotes to Explore
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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There's no regrets for me.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
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My father resented that I was paid so much more than he was.
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I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat her handmaid with proper respect, and not to prostitute her services for controversial or personal purposes.
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Iran continues to explicitly threaten to destroy the state of Israel, America's most important ally in the region. Its leaders continue to shout, 'Death to America.' If Iran wants to be a part of the world community, it should renounce such statements.
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I don't want at the end of my life to look back at just a bunch of fictional movies I was involved in that kept taking me away from the real world.
