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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.
Joel Edgerton
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I oftentimes find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.
Joel Edgerton
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If I knew my schedule a month ahead, I'd be so bored.
Joel Edgerton
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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.
Joel Edgerton
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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.
Joel Edgerton
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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.
Joel Edgerton
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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.
Joel Edgerton
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I think the life of an actor is very glamorous to other people - then, realities set in.
Joel Edgerton
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Unfortunately, the Egyptians weren't the greatest artists in the world.
Joel Edgerton
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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.
Joel Edgerton
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If I'm going to work for twelve hours a day, I want twelve hours of awesomeness!
Joel Edgerton
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I was raised Catholic, and I remember in all the pamphlets and pictures we'd look at, Jesus was basically blonde with blue eyes. He kind of looked like Jared Leto.
Joel Edgerton
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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.
Joel Edgerton
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The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.
Joel Edgerton
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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.
Joel Edgerton
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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.
Joel Edgerton
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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.
Joel Edgerton
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I remember being bullied at school, and I remember being cruel to other kids.
Joel Edgerton
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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.
Joel Edgerton
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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.
Joel Edgerton
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In Australia, there aren't a lot of people committed to art, so these communities form that are dedicated to music, theater, cinema, but they're very small. So, they tend to move ahead on the power of collaboration, enthusiasm and creativity.
Joel Edgerton
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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.
Joel Edgerton
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What makes a really great fighter is a combination of ingredients: one is everything physical that you can do, and the other is what's mentally there for you. And I think that comes down to how big your heart is and what's driving you.
Joel Edgerton
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I had a black belt in Shotokan as a kid.
Joel Edgerton
