Joel Edgerton Quotes
-
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.
-
We are people in circumstances who make choices that we think are right at the time.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I never really think too much about my voice.
-
It's funny how sometimes you learn things off the Internet before they're actually told to you.
-
I grew up being taught, 'Do unto others as they would do unto you.' I would get scolded for not being polite.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I do know one thing: it's best not to read the Internet.
-
Everybody's a mix of good and bad choices that they make.
-
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.
-
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.
-
One wrong move, and you destroy your career.
-
Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?
-
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.
-
All I can say is working with Ridley Scott is a dream come true.
-
Actors want to act; actors want to emote. It's like the emotional equivalent of tearing your shirt off and screaming to the heavens: you want to express, and you want to be seen to be expressing.
-
Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up.
-
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.
-
When you're constantly involved in domination, what you're really looking for is constant highs.
-
I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.
-
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.
-
I just don't want to do crap movies, man, because I just love that I can get up and talk about them and talk to journalists about stuff that I'm really proud of.