Joel Edgerton Quotes

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Joel Edgerton

Profession : Actor

Birth : June 23, 1974

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

Joel Edgerton

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.

Joel Edgerton

The Australians are actually the worst of the criminals from the United Kingdom, but not worst as in toughest. They're the ones who did stupid little things and got caught for it. Bad criminals.

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I had a black belt in Shotokan as a kid.

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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.

Joel Edgerton

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.

Joel Edgerton

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

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What an audience decides about where certain characters come from is really up to them.

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

Joel Edgerton

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'.'

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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.

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It feels good to be fit and strong.

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

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The best jujitsu practitioners are really serene and grounded.

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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.

Joel Edgerton

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.

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I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.

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I never really think too much about my voice.

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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.

Joel Edgerton

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

Joel Edgerton