Joel Edgerton Quotes
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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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I spent a lot of time outdoors as a kid.
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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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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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You can't really be picky when no one is offering you anything.
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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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Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?
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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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I had a bit of a martial arts background from when I was a teenager: I did a bit of karate.
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I'm a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself.
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It's weird: I don't see myself as a tough guy.
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I never really think too much about my voice.
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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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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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The Australians are actually the worst of the criminals from the United Kingdom, but not worst as in toughest. They're the ones who did stupid little things and got caught for it. Bad criminals.
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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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The sum total of all my stop-starts have made me less concerned about the future. I'm just aware now that I'll always land on my feet somehow.
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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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I'm a pacifist.
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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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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 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 remember being bullied at school, and I remember being cruel to other kids.
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I blame my work for a lot of things. I thank my work for a lot of things, too, but the trouble with being so passionately involved in work is that it becomes like a lover, like your partner, because it nourishes you.