Top 30 Edward Norton Quotes

I don’t smoke and I don’t want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.

I don’t have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.

I’m not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.

Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he’s playing.

The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it’s about.

There’s a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.

It’s a dream to be in a company of actors.

I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters’ inner struggles.

Well, I don’t feel that I’ve played so many bad guys, and I’m rot really drawn to villains per se. I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters’ inner struggles.

You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.

I don’t get much out of doing a red carpet.

I don’t flatter myself – I’m not a scientist, I’m not a conservation expert.

You can’t control everything that comes to you.

No, I’m not a very methodologically pure actor.

If I’m trying to put size on for a role, then I don’t do much running.

You never make all things for all people and can’t always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me.

Instead of telling the world what you’re eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that’s meaningful.

Just because you’ve made a couple movies, you’ve done some good movies, you’ve been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody’s entitled. It’s a business. If they don’t see it, I can think they’re wrong, but I’m not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

I just love movies.

I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.

Most of the films that I’ve ever really responded to are ones that I feel were really involved in their times.

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

At this point in my life I’m not bent on proving anything, really.

When I’m the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I’ll call it my script.

I grew up on the golden age of children’s TV.

I think a lot of people in their average day actually imagine two sides of a conversation at one point or another. I think that the mental trick of holding two sides of a conversation in your head is actually something that we all do.

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It’s fun, and it’s fun because it’s hard.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

It’s nice when someone knows their lines.

Everyone keeps saying the western’s dead, but it’s not.