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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I think the life of an actor is glamorous to other people, but then the reality sets in: you don't know where you will be next year or how long you'll be there for.
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I always kind of aim with the action stuff to make it feel like, as an audience member, you're experiencing what the people are experiencing. As soon as you go into slow-mo or repeated edits, shooting it like it's a stunt, it takes it out of that reality. The more real you make that stuff, the more tense it will be.
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I don't want to be too power-hungry.
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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'd never really imagined myself as an action star.
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It's weird: I don't see myself as a tough guy.
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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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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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Every now and then, I have a deep thought.
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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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We are people in circumstances who make choices that we think are right at the time.
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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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It's funny how sometimes you learn things off the Internet before they're actually told to you.
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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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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.
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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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You can't really be picky when no one is offering you anything.
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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.
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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 do know one thing: it's best not to read the Internet.
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Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?
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It's an incredibly liberating feeling to have a skirt on. In fact, I know you can buy skirts, and you can buy work kilts and all sorts of stuff.
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Everybody's a mix of good and bad choices that they make.