Words matter. These are the best Emory Cohen Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I come from an intense family – like, we’re just intense people. Not bad people or anything, we are just very intense, and I have just always felt like people who weren’t like that were just a kind of hiding it, like when I was really young in high school.
I was 16 when I linked up with my manager – first person I ever auditioned for – and I’ve been in this ever since.
The old joke in my family is that the last person who isn’t from New York was coming from Russia.
‘House of a Thousand Corpses’ by Rob Zombie – I love that movie. I really do.
My family has artists, but they are all working artists. They are not movie stars. They don’t get paid. I really respect that blue-collared ideology where they’re just trying to make a living.
I really respect people who are just getting by with their 9 to 5s.
I’m shying away from getting lost in really bad movies for really good money.
There are shows that have been prematurely canceled, but I don’t know if ‘Smash’ was one of them.
I want to do a rom-com. For me, where I come from, it would be such a stretch.
I’m zero to a hundred in almost every facet of my life.
I told my father I wanted to act, and he stared renting all these classic films for me to watch.
I’m kind of an all-or-nothing kind of guy.
Everyone’s inspired by Brando. When I started acting, my dad showed me ‘On the Waterfront,’ and I thought, ‘That’s the coolest guy I’ve ever seen.’
When I’m playing a bad guy, a lot of it is imagined: things I thought I wanted to do, but I never would do them.
When I was a kid, I saw ‘Peter Pan,’ and I loved Captain Hook and the Lost Boys because they were the ‘bad boys.’
I’ll play a happy character, but most characters are driven by a pain or a fear. They are driven by something deep down, and most people are like that in the sense. And so, that’s what interests me.
I love a good loser.
That’s what separates actors – I’ll take any risk for a performance.
After I did ‘Brooklyn,’ I did about five or six violent films in one way or another, and not always with me being the bad guy, but something violent about it to keep the street cred up, really.
The hardest thing is for me to let the work go and let myself just live. Every actor is different; they each have their own strengths and weaknesses; trust and ease are mine.
My first two or three films, all I was trying to do was look cool. That’s all I knew acting was.
When it comes to a love story, you’re like, ‘I’ve been in love before.’ So it’s closer to you than the other stuff, and for me, that can be less comfortable.
I’m glad I chose more vulnerable work about what is love and what is freedom and those kinds of things. But there’s something innate in me where I always come back to characters with an edge.
I’m a fourth-generation New Yorker. My family has been in New York for many, many years.
It’s not like every actor needs to train, but an actor will either develop their process through training or through working.