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Emile Hirsch

Profession : Actor

Birth : March 13, 1985

We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of like a really cool kind of re-imagining.

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On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.

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Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good.

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I know what wanting and craving adventure feels like, I can really relate to that.

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Well, when I was a kid and I watched 'Speed Racer,' I used to always watch it in the morning with my cereal. And when I ate the cereal, I would pour soda into the cereal because we never really had milk for some reason, I don't know.

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I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again.

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Believe it or not, I got into the charismatic, shady, sly heart of Sedgewick Bell by watching CNN and C-SPAN.

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I was so grateful to have made 'Into the Wild' before I made 'Speed Racer' because on 'Speed Racer' I was indoors every single day, every single scene, on a green screen. Some of the time, just to pass the time, I would think back to climbing mountains in Alaska. That really helped me.

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When I got a lap dance, because I was 17, they had to put a massive pillow between me and the girl when she was grinding me. It was weird, yet pleasurable.

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There's something just so kind of smooth about politicians.

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I'm not staying away from any genre. I'm trying to get scripts that I like.

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I'm a very, very conservative driver.

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It was very, very challenging being on this thing called the gimbal. It would throw you around, give you whiplash, and they'd tie you down.

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I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a green screen movie, it's like doing independent New York theater because you don't have any backgrounds or props. So it's kind of like making the lowest budgeted film you could possibly imagine, plus $100 million.

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If you give an actor any wiggle room to whine in situations where they want to whine, you're gonna whine.

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The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.

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I've definitely had ideas and plans that sometimes exceed my means and capabilities.

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I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river.

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How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain?

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I don't really like the slogan 'It boy.'

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