Joel Edgerton Quotes
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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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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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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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I was a good boy; I was never in trouble for anything.
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I think it's great to be able to go and watch a short film before you watch a feature.
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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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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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Blue Tongue Films is a very important part of my life.
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It feels good to be fit and strong.
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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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It's easier to play aggression and malevolence onscreen, often, than to hit softer notes.
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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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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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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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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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Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.
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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.
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I can't sing or dance.
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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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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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If I knew my schedule a month ahead, I'd be so bored.
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I love the idea of real-life experiences finding their way into fiction. I think that's really cool.