Joel Edgerton Quotes
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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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Every now and then, I have a deep thought.
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I really like kids.
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You can't really be picky when no one is offering you anything.
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Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up.
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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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I spent a lot of time outdoors as a kid.
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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.
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I always kind of aim with the action stuff to make it feel like, as an audience member, you're experiencing what the people are experiencing. As soon as you go into slow-mo or repeated edits, shooting it like it's a stunt, it takes it out of that reality. The more real you make that stuff, the more tense it will be.
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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 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.
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One wrong move, and you destroy your career.
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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 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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Having rain on your tuxedo is a pretty good reminder that you're not James Bond.
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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 never really think too much about my voice.
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Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.
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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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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.
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You've got to be really careful that you're not falling into the Hollywood trap, you know?
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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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Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?
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I'm a pacifist.