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

• How can you own ... numbers? Numbers belong to the world.

  

  Donald Knuth
  • World

• You gotta play for as many people as you can. It's, like, if someone wants to see you, and they, you know, can't, then that's lame.

  

  Tré Cool Green Day
  • People
  • Play

• I have control of my own style.

  

  Karin Tidbeck
  • Control
  • Style

• I began reading cook books when I was six, cause my father had hundreds of cook books in the kitchen. I was obsessed with cooking and tasting different recipes. I got lost in being a compulsive eater. It brought me much happiness. Sadness too, sure. But I have to say, and compulsive eaters will agree with me, for that few seconds that you're eating, food tastes just great.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Father
  • Happiness
  • Books

• I grew up in the art world.

  

  Cary Elwes
  • World

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

  

  Joel Edgerton