Top 30 Aaron Eckhart Quotes

I’ve been working for many years and I think I’ve managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.

I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn’t look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there’s only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.

It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you’re a man or a woman, you’ll do whatever you have to do to get it.

I mean, the problem is, I think I’m a great writer.

You never really know as an actor; it’s completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.

Through all the relationship stuff I’ve gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.

I’d like to do a romantic comedy.

It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I’ve worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I’ve worked with… Sir Ben Kingsley.

But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that.

I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that’s what I’m always looking for, a director that’s going to help me go places I’ve never been before.

I’m an actor and it happened to go my way that day.

A film has its own life and takes its own time.

I would like to direct.

I can think of films that I’m producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.

Yeah, I’d like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.

If we’re talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don’t look at Clinton.

But then, even with sex, I’m more in the school of less is more in movies.

I think that maybe that’s my weakness, in that I don’t know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.

But I guess I like playing flawed guys ’cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It’s all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

When it gets down to it you just have to act.

I’d like to do more family dramas.

Yeah, but there’s nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.

I don’t do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn’t get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.

Well, I’ve thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don’t know what I’d do.

I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.