Joel Edgerton Quotes
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I had a black belt in Shotokan as a kid.
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You can't really be picky when no one is offering you anything.
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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 spent a lot of time outdoors as a kid.
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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 reckon I would be able compare anything to anything else if you gave me enough time.
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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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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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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 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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I'd never really imagined myself as an action star.
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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 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 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 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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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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Everybody's a mix of good and bad choices that they make.
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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.
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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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I don't want to be too power-hungry.
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It's weird: I don't see myself as a tough guy.
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If, at the end of the day, I can look back and see pictures of all the characters I've played, and there's a smorgasbord of weirdos and interesting, odd, different characters, I'd be so happy.
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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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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.