Edward Norton Quotes
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Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing.
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The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
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I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw?
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Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.
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I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.
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I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.
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If I'm trying to put size on for a role, then I don't do much running.
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I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.
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I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.
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My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.
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People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.
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I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions.
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At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.
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Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.
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I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.
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I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.
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People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.
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I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.
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It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.
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If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience.