Edward Norton Quotes

Most of the films that I've ever really responded to are ones that I feel were really involved in their times.

Edward Norton

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• I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Great
  • Music
  • Friends

• Muslims remain the most convenient target for prejudice in a city like Delhi, which is far more ghettoized than Bombay or Bangalore, for example.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • City
  • Example
  • Prejudice

• I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Work
  • Idea
  • Living

• Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Love

• When I first came into the league, my first three, four years, I had a teammate from college win a Super Bowl.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • College
  • Win
  • Three

• Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Work
  • Character

• All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Day
  • Myself

• Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Question

• For the 'Riddick' character, I try to get as ruthless as possible, and I want to be a machine.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Want
  • Try

• The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Animal

• You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Fight

• I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex practices.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
  • Value
  • Confidence
  • Sex

• The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Person
  • Happiness
  • Outside

• I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, 'This is a Modest Mouse song' or 'This is an Ugly Casanova song.' The people who were open to it not being a Modest Mouse record liked it.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • People
  • Song
  • Ugly

• If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • New
  • Read
  • Fiction

• Everyone assumes it is just 'Wendy who works at Tesco' who goes to audition for 'X Factor,' and then their lives are changed, wham, like that. Me, I am someone who has tried for years in the music industry.

  

  Fleur East
  • Music
  • Live
  • Industry

• There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nature

• A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Literature
  • Process
  • Script

• If I ran into a 19-year-old version of myself, I'd just tell her to live, full out. I might also tell her to go ahead and have a few babies and not worry about the timing of it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Live
  • Myself
  • Worry

• Some of my favorite actresses are Cate Blanchett, I love her. I love Zoe Saldana, and Julianne Moore is one of my favorites. I like women who choose diverse roles and have that strength, which I think all women have but some women embrace it, present it, and live in it.

  

  Jessica Clark
  • Women
  • Live
  • Present

• I've always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinary possibilities, to experience things I may not have access to in my regular life - like being a superhero! Also, I would always put on shows for my family and the neighbors; I guess I was an actor before I even knew it.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Life
  • World
  • Family

• I'm not going to coach again. I've done my coaching, and I think I can put that aside.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Done
  • Coaching

• What the internet has done is destroy film criticism. I would never have guessed that the profession of film criticism would be going the way of the dodo bird.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Done
  • Criticism
  • Bird

• Most of the films that I've ever really responded to are ones that I feel were really involved in their times.

  

  Edward Norton