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All Quotes by author - Edward Norton

" 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. "

" A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience. "

" Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family. "

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" At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really. "

" Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people. "

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

" Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing. "

" Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not. "

" Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it. "

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

" 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. "

" Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways. "

" 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. "

" I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert. "

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

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

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

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

" If I'm trying to put size on for a role, then I don't do much running. "

" If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience. "

" I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw? "

" I grew up on the golden age of children's TV. "

" I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines. "

" I just like working with smart people. "

" I just love movies. "

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

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

" I like music, but I need to get outside more. "

" I like things that aren't superficially one thing or another. "

" I'm a New Yorker, you know. "

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