Joel Edgerton Quotes
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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 remember being bullied at school, and I remember being cruel to other kids.
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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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I spent a lot of time outdoors as a kid.
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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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Everybody's a mix of good and bad choices that they make.
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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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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 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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It's funny how sometimes you learn things off the Internet before they're actually told to you.
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We are people in circumstances who make choices that we think are right at the time.
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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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All I can say is working with Ridley Scott is a dream come true.
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I have this theory that alpha males are actually not alpha males. They're actually very scared - particularly scared of competition from a lot of men.
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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 do know one thing: it's best not to read the Internet.
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To me, I think I'm just going to keep focused and forward on what I'm doing, work-wise, rather than searching for any kind of meaning in it.
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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 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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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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One wrong move, and you destroy your career.
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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'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 really like kids.