Edward Norton Quotes

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Edward Norton

Profession : Actor

Birth : August 18, 1969

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.

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

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I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.

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Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

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

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

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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.

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I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

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

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Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

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It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

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I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.

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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.

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I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

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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.

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I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through.

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Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.

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If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.

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You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.

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It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.

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