Joel Edgerton Quotes

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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• To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Powerful
  • Start
  • Name

• When you get older, you have to stay a bit rock n' roll so that young people will still be interested in you. The way you move, the way you talk, maybe the way you have your hair in your face a little bit - this keeps you interesting.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Rock

• People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Time
  • True

• My family are the epicenter of all my decisions.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Family
  • Decisions

• I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Found

• It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Support

• It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Me
  • Years
  • Drafts

• You need to understand the batsman, where he plays his shot usually, which is his release shot, and then change the angle, vary the pace, line and length. You cannot always react after being at the receiving end.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Change
  • End
  • Understand

• Global issues require common responses: Only together we can create the conditions to defeat Daesh and al Qaeda, block channels for terrorist financing, tackle foreign terrorist fighters.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Together
  • Common
  • Defeat

• My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Business
  • Dad
  • College

• And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Night
  • City
  • Thought

• I have no interest in becoming a tax exile and living somewhere I don't want to - I just want to be at home with my family.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Family
  • Home
  • Want

• My first time to Rome was when I was backpacking with my best friend around Europe for a month at 18 years old, so I remember that excitement of being away from home properly for the first time.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Time
  • Home
  • Remember

• In the first couple of years when you're transitioning you don't really fit into any gender, because you're changing over. You have to start getting electrolysis before you even start your therapy. But I think all the weird looks help to give you conviction in who you really are.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Help
  • Couple
  • Weird

• The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Trying
  • War
  • Together

• I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Done
  • Myself
  • Hamlet

• My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Great
  • Father
  • Husband

• I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.

  

  Jack Finney
  • Up
  • Said
  • Thanks

• They call me nuts, they call me stupid, they call me ugly. They might be right about ugly. ...All that I've done is to say what's on other peoples' mind.

  

  Alan Grayson
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Stupid

• For all families, participation in music and the arts, can help people reclaim and achieve the American dream.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • People
  • Music
  • American

• The era of nuclear terrorism has arrived.

  

  Liam Fox
  • ERA
  • Arrived
  • Nuclear terrorism

• We all had such larks. Yes, it was hard work but the friendships and the genuine respect we had for one another, that side I shall miss greatly. I've stopped acting, but I don't think I've finished using my voice. I could, and probably will, record the whole of Shakespeare's sonnets. They live at the side of my bed and are my constant companions.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Acting
  • Missing
  • Bed

• To love anyone is to hope in him for always. From the moment at which we begin to judge anyone, to limit our confidence in him, from the moment at which we identify him with what we know of him and so reduce him to that, we cease to love him and he ceases to be able to be better.

  

  Charles de Foucauld
  • Moments
  • Knows
  • Able

• As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

  

  Joel Edgerton