Top 25 Emory Cohen Quotes

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I come from an intense family - like, we're just intens

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.
Emory Cohen
I was 16 when I linked up with my manager – first person I ever auditioned for – and I’ve been in this ever since.
Emory Cohen
The old joke in my family is that the last person who isn’t from New York was coming from Russia.
Emory Cohen
‘House of a Thousand Corpses’ by Rob Zombie – I love that movie. I really do.
Emory Cohen
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.
Emory Cohen
I really respect people who are just getting by with their 9 to 5s.
Emory Cohen
I’m shying away from getting lost in really bad movies for really good money.
Emory Cohen
There are shows that have been prematurely canceled, but I don’t know if ‘Smash’ was one of them.
Emory Cohen
I want to do a rom-com. For me, where I come from, it would be such a stretch.
Emory Cohen
I’m zero to a hundred in almost every facet of my life.
Emory Cohen
I told my father I wanted to act, and he stared renting all these classic films for me to watch.
Emory Cohen
I’m kind of an all-or-nothing kind of guy.
Emory Cohen
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.’
Emory Cohen
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.
Emory Cohen
When I was a kid, I saw ‘Peter Pan,’ and I loved Captain Hook and the Lost Boys because they were the ‘bad boys.’
Emory Cohen
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.
Emory Cohen
I love a good loser.
Emory Cohen
That’s what separates actors – I’ll take any risk for a performance.
Emory Cohen
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.
Emory Cohen
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.
Emory Cohen
My first two or three films, all I was trying to do was look cool. That’s all I knew acting was.
Emory Cohen
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.
Emory Cohen
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.
Emory Cohen
I’m a fourth-generation New Yorker. My family has been in New York for many, many years.
Emory Cohen
It’s not like every actor needs to train, but an actor will either develop their process through training or through working.
Emory Cohen