Top 177 Quotes & Sayings by Joel Edgerton - Page 2

I'm not saying I'm a family guy, but maybe that's what people see in me: some kind of paternal quality.

There's a certain relief to just being the guy who puts on the costume and walks onset and gets to prance or stomp around in a Ridley Scott or Baz Luhrmann movie.

Pittsburgh felt like the perfect size of a city to me. There's enough to do, but it's not like living in a circus. I also really loved how sports-enthusiastic Pittsburgh people are: how proud of their sports they are.

If I knew my schedule a month ahead, I'd be so bored.

Even to this day, when I think about the fact that I'm in this 'Star Wars' world, that I'm a half-brother to Darth Vader and an uncle to Luke Skywalker, it's too hard to wrap my head around.

Every now and then, I have a deep thought.

So many people wait around for funding, and if they're unsuccessful, they don't make the film; if you've got a good idea, that seems so pointless. There's always a way of doing it; you've just got to find it.

I think the life of an actor is very glamorous to other people - then, realities set in.

I always kind of aim with the action stuff to make it feel like, as an audience member, you're experiencing what the people are experiencing. As soon as you go into slow-mo or repeated edits, shooting it like it's a stunt, it takes it out of that reality. The more real you make that stuff, the more tense it will be.

There's never been a mathematical equation that says a good experience making a movie equates to a good movie, or a bad experience on a set is going to lead to a bad movie.

If I'm going to work for twelve hours a day, I want twelve hours of awesomeness!

This is the world we live in, isn't it? Tons of spin-offs; people reboot things very quickly. I was amazed how quickly they made a Wolverine movie, then, 'Let's do another origins Wolverine movie.'

I worked for a big department store, and strangely, on my first day, they put me in charge of Christmas wrapping. I didn't know how to wrap a present and make it not look like it fell off a truck.

I often put any project I write in a different decade just to roll the thought around in my head. There's a thriller I've written that I think would be nice to set in the '70s or '80s, just to take cell phones away from the movie. There's nothing like the piercing ring of an old-school telephone to really scare an audience.

I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock on a personality, even just in life, and then they'll shock you by their behavior.

I never really think too much about my voice.

I don't call acting a real job, and writing is a hobby.

Some of us are better at owning the responsibility of our actions than others.

Polo is like playing golf with a saddle, and there are a lot of moving parts.

I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.

There's a stage where you're desperate to get a job, and you're waving your hands in a sea of nothingness, going, 'Please, please, please! I'm over here - give me a job!'

I'm pretty skeptical about Hollywood and its fascination with the sequel and the franchise.

I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the scripts I read in my acting life.

If, at the end of the day, I can look back and see pictures of all the characters I've played, and there's a smorgasbord of weirdos and interesting, odd, different characters, I'd be so happy.

Actors are excused from a lot of things, and we get away with a lot... I find it equally interesting and exciting as it is disgusting and bizarre.

I think I'd be too scared to direct my first movie and put myself in the center.

I never sing out loud because I'm afraid people will go, 'Shut up!'

I'm a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself.

Gene Hackman was a superstar in the '70s - with that face!

Really, no-one is bad except for serial killers and dictators.

I'd never really imagined myself as an action star.

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

You have to stick to what you love and purse that at all costs. Don't choose money first; it won't make you happy.

I find it strange when people can't relate to kids, because you were a kid once, you know?

We are people in circumstances who make choices that we think are right at the time.

Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?

I couldn't do 'Eleanor Rigby' because it was clashing with another project - something I was going to go do - something with Liv Ullmann.

Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up.

I love so much what I do that I spend so much time thinking about it, and then I go home, and then I'm thinking about it, so it's nice sometimes when a movie is over, and then the niggling feelings about whether you've did it right or not start to ebb away.

To me, Hollywood seems a little bipolar. Things happen; things don't happen. Someone's in a movie; someone's not in a movie. I've learned not to build my expectations.

I was a good boy; I was never in trouble for anything.

Getting the call from Ridley Scott made me think that sometimes you just need to go to work.

All I can say is working with Ridley Scott is a dream come true.

When I was young, I had a very clear point of view on things in life, on moral questions. There was a black and white viewpoint on my world. As I've gotten older, I see the grey areas appear.

I wasted too much time in my twenties. I worked, but I would do theater in the evening, and during the day I would surf and do irascible things. And then, for some reason, as I got closer to my thirties, I thought, 'Okay Joel, you've wasted enough time.'

Some people are really good at playing the movie star - they are really good at cultivating that mystique - but I'm not really into that.

I would have happily done 'Bourne Legacy,' but a lot of decisions are made for you.

I wanted to make a redemptive thriller that didn't end with some kind of big, crazy shootout and blood spill, but more of a collision of ideas and a discussion of ethics.

I think the great thing about religion is it's there to teach us the good path and that we're all equal, that we should be treated as such.

I came out of high school, where my heroes were, like, Michael Jordan and a lot of local rugby players - and on the movie front, it was Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.

Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.

You can road-test relationships.

Stunt work offers a diversity of roles and, while I'm used to anonymity, I really like showing off and performing in front of camera, though I know my limitations.

I really like kids.

I have this theory that alpha males are actually not alpha males. They're actually very scared - particularly scared of competition from a lot of men.

One of the great joys of being able to write something you can make, if you get certain actors you want and love, you're kind of buying yourself a front row seat to watch them work.

I never imagined myself in a movie with magic.

When you're constantly involved in domination, what you're really looking for is constant highs.

Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas on the screen. You can't hide behind some other person's script; you're saying, 'This is my brain, and I want you to know what I think'.'

Actors want to act; actors want to emote. It's like the emotional equivalent of tearing your shirt off and screaming to the heavens: you want to express, and you want to be seen to be expressing.