Joel Edgerton Quotes
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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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It's funny how sometimes you learn things off the Internet before they're actually told to you.
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I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the scripts I read in my acting life.
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I spent a lot of time outdoors as a kid.
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I reckon I would be able compare anything to anything else if you gave me enough time.
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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.
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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.
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I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to fiction.
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You can't really be picky when no one is offering you anything.
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To me, I think I'm just going to keep focused and forward on what I'm doing, work-wise, rather than searching for any kind of meaning in it.
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Australians and the British are very similar: If you try and stand out in any way, and you try to reach for success, someone is gonna be there to cut you down.
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I have this theory that alpha males are actually not alpha males. They're actually very scared - particularly scared of competition from a lot of men.
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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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I'd never really imagined myself as an action star.
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I grew up being taught, 'Do unto others as they would do unto you.' I would get scolded for not being polite.
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Unfortunately, the Egyptians weren't the greatest artists in the world.
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Everybody's a mix of good and bad choices that they make.
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I don't appreciate, really, talking to journalists when there's a sense of wanting to kick up dust to sell more papers or get more hits on their Internet site.
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Some people are really good at playing the movie star - they are really good at cultivating that mystique - but I'm not really into that.
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I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.
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It's easier to play aggression and malevolence onscreen, often, than to hit softer notes.
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You have to stick to what you love and purse that at all costs. Don't choose money first; it won't make you happy.
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Part of the privilege of being an actor is the people you get to work with.
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I wanted to make a redemptive thriller that didn't end with some kind of big, crazy shootout and blood spill, but more of a collision of ideas and a discussion of ethics.