Joel Edgerton Quotes
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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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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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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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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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All I can say is working with Ridley Scott is a dream come true.
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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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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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Having rain on your tuxedo is a pretty good reminder that you're not James Bond.
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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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It's weird: I don't see myself as a tough guy.
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When you're constantly involved in domination, what you're really looking for is constant highs.
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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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I never sing out loud because I'm afraid people will go, 'Shut 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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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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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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Part of the privilege of being an actor is the people you get to work with.
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Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.
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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 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.
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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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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 would have happily done 'Bourne Legacy,' but a lot of decisions are made for you.