Joel Edgerton Quotes
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I don't want to be too power-hungry.
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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 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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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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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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It's weird: I don't see myself as a tough guy.
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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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Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.
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I really like kids.
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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 never sing out loud because I'm afraid people will go, 'Shut up!'
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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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Having rain on your tuxedo is a pretty good reminder that you're not James Bond.
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I never really think too much about my voice.
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One wrong move, and you destroy your career.
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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 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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All I can say is working with Ridley Scott is a dream come true.
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I'm a pacifist.
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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.
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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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There's never been a mathematical equation that says a good experience making a movie equates to a good movie, or a bad experience on a set is going to lead to a bad movie.