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" I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there. "
Eric Bana
Luck
Nothing
Stage
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" I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow. "
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" I really enjoy working on small films. "
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" It's always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work. "
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" I'll give you a list of a hundred ways that I'm more likely to be injured than belting around a race track with people who know what they're doing. It's not a place where I feel I'm in unnecessary danger. "
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" I'm spending all my time and energy on the project at hand. "
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" When you're shooting a film, you really don't get to be a dad, and you don't really get to be a husband. You don't really exist at all. But I do drag my family with me on location whenever I can. "
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" I deliberately fly in and out of LA for as small a time as humanly possible. "
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" I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, 'Bring back the spikes, Dad.' "
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" I'm always one time zone behind myself. "
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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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" I love being at home, being with friends and family. I'm of European stock, brought up in Australia. I'm a passionate guy. I just love life. "
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" I don't like to come at my character from some really technical place. "
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" When I was a kid, I would do stupid things on my bike. I'd jump any ramp, I'd jump over people, I'd jump over things - always crashing, never hurting myself badly but always wanting to take physical risks. "
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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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" The longer you have something, the stronger the bond. That's true with people as well as things. "
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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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" I've always described parts as tattoos. For actors our tattoos are in the form of films. "
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" I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it's just a big play. "
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" I like the unknown. I like mystery. "
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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 used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way. "
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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 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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" My wife and I really, really like each other as well as love each other. "
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" I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me. "
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" I fell in love with many women at school who had no idea I existed. I'm a bit of a romantic. "
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