Top 100 Joel Edgerton Quotes

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I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting t

I’m hardly digging trenches for a living. I’m getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.
Joel Edgerton
Making a movie like ‘Felony’ is hard work because you’re really putting your own ideas on the screen. You can’t hide behind some other person’s script; you’re saying, ‘This is my brain, and I want you to know what I think’.’
Joel Edgerton
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.
Joel Edgerton
There’s a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don’t get in touch with.
Joel Edgerton
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.
Joel Edgerton
I oftentimes find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It’s almost out of necessity.
Joel Edgerton
I remember being bullied at school, and I remember being cruel to other kids.
Joel Edgerton
I really believe guilt finds its way out of a person.
Joel Edgerton
I think the life of an actor is very glamorous to other people – then, realities set in.
Joel Edgerton
One of the great joys of being able to write something you can make, if you get certain actors you want and love, you’re kind of buying yourself a front row seat to watch them work.
Joel Edgerton
We are people in circumstances who make choices that we think are right at the time.
Joel Edgerton
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.
Joel Edgerton
I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.
Joel Edgerton
I did have someone tell me that I looked like Conan O’Brien. I was like, ‘What?’
Joel Edgerton
I operate under the theory that all publicity is good publicity, and then, if that theory doesn’t work, you just say that any newspaper article ends up on the bottom of the parrot cage. But, of course, you can’t line a parrot cage with Internet bloggers, can you?
Joel Edgerton
I love the idea of real-life experiences finding their way into fiction. I think that’s really cool.
Joel Edgerton
Pulled pork jokes never get old.
Joel Edgerton
I remember my brother Nash had just directed me in ‘The Square,’ and I was sitting in Australia going: ‘No one’s called me about working for ages. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get another job.’
Joel Edgerton
I have always stuck to my guns about what I want from the work and what interests me. I’ve never been seduced down the evil path. The path of taking the money.
Joel Edgerton
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.
Joel Edgerton
I’m really great at making terrible analogies.
Joel Edgerton
My whole journey and career has been really interesting, but the one element it never really had was any sense of great momentum.
Joel Edgerton
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.
Joel Edgerton
Sometimes, what’s not said is just as important to the writing as what is said. As a writer, we have our voices heard. I think that, at oftentimes, the ability to allow the dialogue to recede properly into the world of the film is also a really valid sort of way to be a writer, I think.
Joel Edgerton
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.
Joel Edgerton
Everybody’s a mix of good and bad choices that they make.
Joel Edgerton
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.
Joel Edgerton
I always kept myself fairly fit.
Joel Edgerton
So many people wait around for funding, and if they’re unsuccessful, they don’t make the film; if you’ve got a good idea, that seems so pointless. There’s always a way of doing it; you’ve just got to find it.
Joel Edgerton
Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.
Joel Edgerton
Really, no-one is bad except for serial killers and dictators.
Joel Edgerton
To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle,

To act with a tennis ball and imagine it’s a tentacle, or if you’re in some kind of wilderness film and you go, ‘Okay, we can’t have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there’s a grizzly bear.’ I don’t know. They’re tough moments.
Joel Edgerton
You can road-test relationships.
Joel Edgerton
I’d never really imagined myself as an action star.
Joel Edgerton
I don’t have any kids of my own.
Joel Edgerton
Whereas ‘Avatar’ and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, ‘Gatsby’ is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work.
Joel Edgerton
I came out of high school, where my heroes were, like, Michael Jordan and a lot of local rugby players – and on the movie front, it was Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.
Joel Edgerton
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.
Joel Edgerton
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.
Joel Edgerton
It’s tricky. I’ve never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I’ve never really had a profile. So in a way I have this ‘nothing to lose’ attitude.
Joel Edgerton
If, at the end of the day, I can look back and see pictures of all the characters I’ve played, and there’s a smorgasbord of weirdos and interesting, odd, different characters, I’d be so happy.
Joel Edgerton
The best jujitsu practitioners are really serene and grounded.
Joel Edgerton
Even to this day, when I think about the fact that I’m in this ‘Star Wars’ world, that I’m a half-brother to Darth Vader and an uncle to Luke Skywalker, it’s too hard to wrap my head around.
Joel Edgerton
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.
Joel Edgerton
Part of the privilege of being an actor is the people you get to work with.
Joel Edgerton
The biggest difference for me is momentum. On a smaller film you get to shoot sometimes four or five scenes a day and you’ve got to do the tight schedule. I think I really feel the luxuries of a big budget film.
Joel Edgerton
I learned a great lesson early on, even before I was really an actor, from that movie ‘Planes, Trains & Automobiles’ that John Hughes made: that you could make a movie that’s really, really, really, really funny, and sometimes you can still achieve… making the audience feel very deep emotions as well.
Joel Edgerton
I really like kids.
Joel Edgerton
One wrong move, and you destroy your career.
Joel Edgerton
Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.
Joel Edgerton
I’m a bit of a workaholic.
Joel Edgerton
I never really think too much about my voice.
Joel Edgerton
Pittsburgh felt like the perfect size of a city to me. There’s enough to do, but it’s not like living in a circus. I also really loved how sports-enthusiastic Pittsburgh people are: how proud of their sports they are.
Joel Edgerton
I don’t necessarily see myself as an experienced filmmaker just because I’ve been in a few movies.
Joel Edgerton
I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to fiction.
Joel Edgerton
In Australia, there aren’t a lot of people committed to art, so these communities form that are dedicated to music, theater, cinema, but they’re very small. So, they tend to move ahead on the power of collaboration, enthusiasm and creativity.
Joel Edgerton
You can’t really be picky when no one is offering you anything.
Joel Edgerton
The nature of human beings is that we’re competitive, and the chances are there’s someone out there who’s going to work harder than you and want it more than you.
Joel Edgerton
This is the world we live in, isn’t it? Tons of spin-offs; people reboot things very quickly. I was amazed how quickly they made a Wolverine movie, then, ‘Let’s do another origins Wolverine movie.’
Joel Edgerton
I was a good boy; I was never in trouble for anything.
Joel Edgerton
I think the great thing about religion is it’s there to teach us the good path and that we’re all equal, that we should be treated as such.
Joel Edgerton
I couldn’t do ‘Eleanor Rigby’ because it was clashing with another project – something I was going to go do – something with Liv Ullmann.
Joel Edgerton
If I knew my schedule a month ahead, I'd be so bored.

If I knew my schedule a month ahead, I’d be so bored.
Joel Edgerton
Australians and the British are very similar: If you try and stand out in any way, and you try to reach for success, someone is gonna be there to cut you down.
Joel Edgerton
There’s a certain relief to just being the guy who puts on the costume and walks onset and gets to prance or stomp around in a Ridley Scott or Baz Luhrmann movie.
Joel Edgerton
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.
Joel Edgerton
If I’m going to work for twelve hours a day, I want twelve hours of awesomeness!
Joel Edgerton
That’s one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you’d never know about.
Joel Edgerton