Joel Edgerton Quotes

It's easier to play aggression and malevolence onscreen, often, than to hit softer notes.

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• Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn't be reached.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Kids
  • Never
  • Care

• The way deals are done, every idea is looked at 50 different ways. Now, the market continues to change all the time. And we are always looking at everything in evaluating how it fits with our strategy.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Time
  • Different
  • Done

• When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Me

• I think I'm attracted to writers who tell us something about ourselves.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Think
  • Something
  • Tell

• Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Up
  • Key

• My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

  

  Karel Capek
  • People
  • Soul
  • Perfect

• Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.

  

  Larry Brilliant
  • World
  • Pretty
  • You

• Vida's definitely a beautiful and peaceful girl.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Beautiful
  • Girl
  • Peaceful

• With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Song
  • Tried
  • Traditional

• By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Good
  • Risk
  • Chance

• The 13-episode model lends itself to a more serialised format, which is nice and gives writers a chance to breathe some space into it.

  

  Eddie Cahill
  • Nice
  • Space
  • Chance

• You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Life
  • Live
  • Want

• I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Good
  • Want
  • Ghetto

• Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Great

• The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Men

• The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.

  

  Jacques Delors
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• It takes such a commitment of passion and energy and time, and it's all so encompassing to direct that you've got to see the bullseye, and you know you can hit it - or at least get awfully close.

  

  Jonathan Mostow
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Passion

• Most of my ideas come from drawing patterns across conversations I have with different types of people - technology investors, young fashion design students, a CEO. This variety is stimulating and offers many different perspectives on the things I am thinking about.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.

  

  Susan Cain
  • Opposites
  • Temperament
  • Attract

• When people buy, rescue, or otherwise acquire a dog from unscrupulous breeders or amateur rescue groups, they are making a decision with ethical consequences. They have a profound responsibility to consider their actions; to gauge the dog's behavior, to train it thoroughly and rigorously, to protect other humans and dogs from harm.

  

  Jon Katz
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Decision

• It's easier to play aggression and malevolence onscreen, often, than to hit softer notes.

  

  Joel Edgerton