Top 38 Quotes & Sayings by Edward Furlong

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Edward Furlong.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Edward Furlong

Edward Walter Furlong is an American actor. He won Saturn and MTV Movie Awards for his breakthrough performance at age 13 as John Connor in James Cameron's Terminator 2: Judgment Day; which was followed by a mini-sequel, short attraction film T2-3D: Battle Across Time co-directed and co-written by Cameron with the same main cast. In 1992, he gave an Independent Spirit Award-nominated turn opposite Jeff Bridges in American Heart, and earned a second Saturn Award nomination for his work in Pet Sematary Two. He won a Young Artist Award for his performance alongside Kathy Bates in A Home of Our Own (1993) and appeared in Before and After (1996) with Meryl Streep and Liam Neeson. Furlong received acclaim for his starring roles in the 1998 motion pictures Pecker, co-starring Christina Ricci, and American History X, co-starring Edward Norton. He had significant roles in the comedy Detroit Rock City (1999) and the crime drama Animal Factory (2000).

But i think it would drive me more crazy to just go do a movie that I didn't believe in, you know?
I was scared I was going to have some weird shape to my head and I was pleased that I didn't.
I am very, very competitive and ambitious. I would definitely fight hard for a role I believed in. — © Edward Furlong
I am very, very competitive and ambitious. I would definitely fight hard for a role I believed in.
I've always wanted to do a movie that takes place in the 70's and was about rock and roll and getting high, like Dazed and Confused or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
I had a hard time going back to school after T2. I really didn't want to go to private school.
Jim Cameron used to call me 'Special Ed.'
When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, Oh yeah, I'll get girls and be famous.
It hasn't been a totally smooth road, but in the whole span of things I feel like a very lucky person.
But I'm not like sad, depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression.
I don't think anyone has a normal family.
I know a lot of people my age are still trying to figure out what to do, and I consider myself lucky that I can make a living doing something that I truly enjoy.
Who wants to go to school and be asked for, like, 20 autographs?
It's really hard to find good movies, and that's pretty much what I try to find, good movies. — © Edward Furlong
It's really hard to find good movies, and that's pretty much what I try to find, good movies.
Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie.
I'm so embarrassed by that album. I don't even own it myself.
People aren't born racist.
A lot of people my age are so hyper. I like hyper people.
I never thought I'd reach 21. I used to feel that was old, but growing old doesn't scare me anymore. I just want to have done something super special and have had someone to do it with.
I look up to actors. I look up to Robert DeNiro, I look up to Johnny Depp, I look up to Al Pacino, I look up to run-of-the-mill really good actors. I love watching movies, and I love watching other actors and learning from them.
I've always liked women. But I don't want somebody who likes me because I'm famous. I like girls who are intelligent and who are kind of quiet like me.
I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family.
By the time I'm old, I'm sure I'll have lived a full enough life. I think we're mortal for a reason. Life gets tiring, man!
I have a little brother. He's actually living at my house right now. He's going to be 18.
I enjoy playing people that are totally different than me.
The first willing concert I went to was Aerosmith when I was like 14.
If I was in a room with a bunch of skinheads talking about racism, then I would be disturbed, but after we finished a take, we were normal people again.
Little Odessa. Of all my movies, it's the one that I still really love when I watch it and I'm pretty happy with what I didn in that. — © Edward Furlong
Little Odessa. Of all my movies, it's the one that I still really love when I watch it and I'm pretty happy with what I didn in that.
It is in your nature to destroy yourselves.
I love acting. I can't imagine anything else that I would do. I know a lot of actors that really want to be directors and be musicians and all that stuff. I like acting and I feel like I'm good at it. It kinda makes me happy. It's actually pretty easy to me and I can't imagine doing anything else at this point because I've been doing it for so long.
In a lot of ways being actor is like with any job, at first it's sort of like alien to you a little bit... a little foreign. And then as time goes on... when I was a kid I'd take a role... it's kind of funny too, because now I have the attitude also "All I am is just like making movies." When you're a kid it's like, "Oh my god, I'm making a movie! It's so much pressure!".
You just can't go around killing people!
I had a hard time going back to school after T2. I really didnt want to go to private school.
As I get older, I'm more willing to take on more, I guess. I feel more comfortable kind of being different characters and kind of stretching it a little more. Like with The Visitation. At least for me, being an actor, I have to draw from human experiences, so it was kind of a stretch playing that role. Kind of supernatural... kind of like what I did in The Crow actually.
Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it.
Basically, man, I just love myself.
I'd definitely say I end up being more attracted to darker roles. Probably because I like darker movies and plus, just as an actor, I think it's always more fun to play the darker roles where you get to stretch your arms a little bit more. It's like therapeutic.
We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean. — © Edward Furlong
We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean.
Im not this tortured soul or anything.
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