Joel Edgerton Quotes
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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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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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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 not saying I'm a family guy, but maybe that's what people see in me: some kind of paternal quality.
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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 really like kids.
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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 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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I was raised Catholic, and I remember in all the pamphlets and pictures we'd look at, Jesus was basically blonde with blue eyes. He kind of looked like Jared Leto.
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Unfortunately, the Egyptians weren't the greatest artists in the world.
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One wrong move, and you destroy your career.
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I'm a pacifist.
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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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All I can say is working with Ridley Scott is a dream come true.
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Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.
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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 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 easier to play aggression and malevolence onscreen, often, than to hit softer notes.
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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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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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I never sing out loud because I'm afraid people will go, 'Shut up!'
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The downside to making movies at a gallop like we did with 'Wish You Were Here' is that we're shooting four or five scenes in a day, and it's very exhilarating, but you worry at the end of the day that you missed some details because you were moving too quick, and you just gotta trust and be ready straightaway.
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There's a stage where you're desperate to get a job, and you're waving your hands in a sea of nothingness, going, 'Please, please, please! I'm over here - give me a job!'
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When you're constantly involved in domination, what you're really looking for is constant highs.