Joel Edgerton Quotes
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I thought I'd be married and a father by 35.
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'Animal Kingdom' feels like a suburban Melbourne version of 'The Godfather 'to me. It's epic and Shakespearean in its story, and yet you still feel like you can reach out and touch it.
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This is the world we live in, isn't it? Tons of spin-offs; people reboot things very quickly. I was amazed how quickly they made a Wolverine movie, then, 'Let's do another origins Wolverine movie.'
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I worked for a big department store, and strangely, on my first day, they put me in charge of Christmas wrapping. I didn't know how to wrap a present and make it not look like it fell off a truck.
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Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?
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It feels good to be fit and strong.
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I don't necessarily see myself as an experienced filmmaker just because I've been in a few movies.
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Blue Tongue Films is a very important part of my life.
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I think the great thing about religion is it's there to teach us the good path and that we're all equal, that we should be treated as such.
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Actors are excused from a lot of things, and we get away with a lot... I find it equally interesting and exciting as it is disgusting and bizarre.
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Stunt work offers a diversity of roles and, while I'm used to anonymity, I really like showing off and performing in front of camera, though I know my limitations.
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Even to this day, when I think about the fact that I'm in this 'Star Wars' world, that I'm a half-brother to Darth Vader and an uncle to Luke Skywalker, it's too hard to wrap my head around.
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I always wonder why people cast me in anything.
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I think I'd be too scared to direct my first movie and put myself in the center.
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People talk about the difference between working on stage and working on film. I think you could say that there are as many differences between working on low budget films and working on big budget films. You really are doing the same thing, but at the same time you're doing something vastly different as well.
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Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas on the screen. You can't hide behind some other person's script; you're saying, 'This is my brain, and I want you to know what I think'.'
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I'm on the list that I thought I'd never be on. I'm not sitting here thinking, 'God, I might get this part' or 'is it too late for me to play Hamlet?' It's really about: who do I get to work with? There's so many people on that list.
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Fighting in the ring or cage is very much different from fighting in the street. Fighting in the street is very much fueled by anger, pride, and male dominance and ego.
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My whole journey and career has been really interesting, but the one element it never really had was any sense of great momentum.
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If I knew my schedule a month ahead, I'd be so bored.
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I was a good boy; I was never in trouble for anything.
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I think the life of an actor is very glamorous to other people - then, realities set in.
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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.
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Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time.