Joel Edgerton Quotes
-
If I knew my schedule a month ahead, I'd be so bored.
-
Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?
-
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.
-
I think the life of an actor is very glamorous to other people - then, realities set in.
-
If I'm going to work for twelve hours a day, I want twelve hours of awesomeness!
-
Every now and then, I have a deep thought.
-
I can't sing or dance.
-
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'.'
-
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.
-
I'm not saying I'm a family guy, but maybe that's what people see in me: some kind of paternal quality.
-
Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time.
-
The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.
-
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.
-
I had a black belt in Shotokan as a kid.
-
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.
-
My whole journey and career has been really interesting, but the one element it never really had was any sense of great momentum.
-
I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.
-
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.
-
As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.
-
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.
-
I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to fiction.
-
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.
-
The tricky thing becomes: Do you know yourself well enough to then portray that on screen? And for me, I find that really hard. I'd rather hide behind accents and funny walks.
-
'The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me.