Joel Edgerton Quotes
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I'd never really imagined myself as an action star.
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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 had a black belt in Shotokan as a kid.
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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 do know one thing: it's best not to read the Internet.
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We are people in circumstances who make choices that we think are right at the time.
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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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I don't want to be too power-hungry.
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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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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 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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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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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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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 weird: I don't see myself as a tough guy.
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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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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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To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments.
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I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock on a personality, even just in life, and then they'll shock you by their behavior.
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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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Part of the privilege of being an actor is the people you get to work with.
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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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I spent a lot of time outdoors as a kid.
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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.