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.
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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.
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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My family are the epicenter of all my decisions.
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I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.
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I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.
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My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband.
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I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.
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There’s no point in being unhappy about things you can’t change, and no point being unhappy about things you can.
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I want to be someone for young girls to look up to, for fathers to want their daughters to listen to me because I'm not rude, and I'm actually talking some sense.
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People are so quick to judge and make decisions for themselves about situations they know absolutely nothing about.
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How could I expect more from the universe when I didn't appreciate what I already had?
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Drosophila,” I said, remembering the word. “What?” Lily asked. “Why do girls always fall for guys with the at ention span of drosophila?” “What?” “Fruit flies. Guys with the attention span of fruit flies.” “Because they’re hot?” “This,” I told her, “is not the time for being truthful.
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As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.
