Joel Edgerton Quotes
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You can't really be picky when no one is offering you anything.
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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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One wrong move, and you destroy your career.
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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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Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up.
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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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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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Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.
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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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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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Everybody's a mix of good and bad choices that they make.
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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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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 really like kids.
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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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I'm a pacifist.
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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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Every now and then, I have a deep thought.
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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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Having rain on your tuxedo is a pretty good reminder that you're not James Bond.
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I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.
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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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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.