Words matter. These are the best Joel Edgerton Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m hardly digging trenches for a living. I’m getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.
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’.’
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.
There’s a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don’t get in touch with.
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.
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.
I remember being bullied at school, and I remember being cruel to other kids.
I really believe guilt finds its way out of a person.
I think the life of an actor is very glamorous to other people – then, realities set in.
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.
We are people in circumstances who make choices that we think are right at the time.
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.
I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.
I did have someone tell me that I looked like Conan O’Brien. I was like, ‘What?’
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?
I love the idea of real-life experiences finding their way into fiction. I think that’s really cool.
Pulled pork jokes never get old.
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.’
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.
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.
I’m really great at making terrible analogies.
My whole journey and career has been really interesting, but the one element it never really had was any sense of great momentum.
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.
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.
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.
Everybody’s a mix of good and bad choices that they make.
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.
I always kept myself fairly fit.
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.
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.
Really, no-one is bad except for serial killers and dictators.
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.
You can road-test relationships.
I’d never really imagined myself as an action star.
I don’t have any kids of my own.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The best jujitsu practitioners are really serene and grounded.
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.
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.
Part of the privilege of being an actor is the people you get to work with.
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.
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.
I really like kids.
One wrong move, and you destroy your career.
Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.
I’m a bit of a workaholic.
I never really think too much about my voice.
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.
I don’t necessarily see myself as an experienced filmmaker just because I’ve been in a few movies.
I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to fiction.
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.
You can’t really be picky when no one is offering you anything.
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.
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.’
I was a good boy; I was never in trouble for anything.
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.
I couldn’t do ‘Eleanor Rigby’ because it was clashing with another project – something I was going to go do – something with Liv Ullmann.
If I knew my schedule a month ahead, I’d be so bored.
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.
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.
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.
If I’m going to work for twelve hours a day, I want twelve hours of awesomeness!
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.
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