Joel Edgerton Quotes
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I had a black belt in Shotokan as a kid.
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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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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 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 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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Unfortunately, the Egyptians weren't the greatest artists in the world.
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It's weird: I don't see myself as a tough guy.
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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 reckon I would be able compare anything to anything else if you gave me enough time.
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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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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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Part of the privilege of being an actor is the people you get to work with.
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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 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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Everybody's a mix of good and bad choices that they make.