Joel Edgerton Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Joel Edgerton
Joel Edgerton Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.
I don't want at the end of my life to look back at just a bunch of fictional movies I was involved in that kept taking me away from the real world.
To me, 'Warrior' was a real turning point - probably one of the greatest experiences I've ever had as an actor on set.
I tend to take on a lot of things. And then they all just seem to happen at once. Or maybe I'm not good at saying 'No'. But the juggling's fun.
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.
I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.
I grew up being taught, 'Do unto others as they would do unto you.' I would get scolded for not being polite.
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.
I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.
I couldn't do 'Eleanor Rigby' because it was clashing with another project - something I was going to go do - something with Liv Ullmann.
The recipe for any character is always very interesting, as far as what doses of certain qualities you want.
I oftentimes find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.
I'm not saying I'm a family guy, but maybe that's what people see in me: some kind of paternal quality.
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.
Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?
Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time.
I have an issue with the commercial aspect of moviemaking: I don't see why a movie can't make a lot of money and also be good.
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.
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 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 love the idea of real-life experiences finding their way into fiction. I think that's really cool.
I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.
I wanted to make a movie that was kind of a tribute to the way I feel when I watch a John Hughes movie.
I'm not going to allow myself to second-guess projects. I'm just going to do the ones that I fully love and believe in - that's a real privilege.
There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.
A lot of the fighters will say you'll know if a fighter's won or lost just by a fighter's eyes - whether they're scared of the other person.
People love boxing, but you've gotta wait two or three years for your favorite boxer to have a fight.
It's an incredibly liberating feeling to have a skirt on. In fact, I know you can buy skirts, and you can buy work kilts and all sorts of stuff.
The little bit of buzz around 'Warrior' led to a lot of opportunities anyway, before the movie even came out.
As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.
I've signed four autographs for Sam Worthington in L.A., and I haven't told any of the people that I'm not him.
Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up.
Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?
To me, I think I'm just going to keep focused and forward on what I'm doing, work-wise, rather than searching for any kind of meaning in it.