Joel Edgerton Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The nature of human beings is that we're competitive, and the chances are there's someone out there who's going to work harder than you and want it more than you.
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Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work.
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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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It's tricky. I've never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I've never really had a profile. So in a way I have this 'nothing to lose' attitude.
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Gavin O'Connor, I'd walk into a fire for that guy. He's a brilliant filmmaker and a passionate man.
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I do know one thing: it's best not to read the Internet.
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A lot of the fighters will say you'll know if a fighter's won or lost just by a fighter's eyes - whether they're scared of the other person.
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I'm not saying I'm a family guy, but maybe that's what people see in me: some kind of paternal quality.
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Whenever you're trying to do your own take on a classic piece of literature, it's almost like you're trying to swim up your own stream or drive down your own path.
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There's the pressure of being a No. 1 on the call sheet, being a lead actor. There's almost this feeling like being captain of the team. You want to put a bit of energy into actually setting a good example.
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One of the great joys of being able to write something you can make, if you get certain actors you want and love, you're kind of buying yourself a front row seat to watch them work.
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It's easier to play aggression and malevolence onscreen, often, than to hit softer notes.
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I remember being bullied at school, and I remember being cruel to other kids.
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If I'm going to work for twelve hours a day, I want twelve hours of awesomeness!
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I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.
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To me, 'Warrior' was a real turning point - probably one of the greatest experiences I've ever had as an actor on set.
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I think, often with Australian films, if an Australian film has been given the seal of approval by an offshore festival or an offshore release, then it does mean a lot to a local audience.
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We are people in circumstances who make choices that we think are right at the time.
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I came out of high school, where my heroes were, like, Michael Jordan and a lot of local rugby players - and on the movie front, it was Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.