Eric Bana Quotes

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Eric Bana

Profession : Actor

Birth : August 9, 1968

The longer you have something, the stronger the bond. That's true with people as well as things.

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My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

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By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way.

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As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.

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The reason my kids come to the set is so I can actually see them.

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I have a theory that I really want my kids to know - the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work.

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I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me.

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Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue.

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If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character?

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Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.

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I don't like to come at my character from some really technical place.

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I always find that 90% of the performance, for me, is about what comes from inside.

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If you're lucky enough to be involved in a film that's about something very real and that you hope will continue to hold up in 20 years' time it just gives you more energy and makes it feel all the more worthwhile.

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I would never say never to returning to comedy.

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I'm always reading and looking around for the next thing.

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I'm spending all my time and energy on the project at hand.

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The movies people don't talk about or remember after six months' time don't really matter.

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I wasn't going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story.

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The more I love the character, the harder it is to get it wrong. I have to get to a point that I can speak for them.

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Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation. It's measurable - unlike acting.

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