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" It's weird: I don't see myself as a tough guy. "
Joel Edgerton
Tough
Tough Guy
Weird
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" I wasted too much time in my twenties. I worked, but I would do theater in the evening, and during the day I would surf and do irascible things. And then, for some reason, as I got closer to my thirties, I thought, 'Okay Joel, you've wasted enough time.' "
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" Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time. "
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" I worked for a big department store, and strangely, on my first day, they put me in charge of Christmas wrapping. I didn't know how to wrap a present and make it not look like it fell off a truck. "
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" I was a good boy; I was never in trouble for anything. "
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" Having rain on your tuxedo is a pretty good reminder that you're not James Bond. "
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" Everybody's a mix of good and bad choices that they make. "
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" 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. "
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" It's an incredibly liberating feeling to have a skirt on. In fact, I know you can buy skirts, and you can buy work kilts and all sorts of stuff. "
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" 'Animal Kingdom' feels like a suburban Melbourne version of 'The Godfather 'to me. It's epic and Shakespearean in its story, and yet you still feel like you can reach out and touch it. "
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" I reckon I would be able compare anything to anything else if you gave me enough time. "
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" That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about. "
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" When I was young, I had a very clear point of view on things in life, on moral questions. There was a black and white viewpoint on my world. As I've gotten older, I see the grey areas appear. "
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" I often put any project I write in a different decade just to roll the thought around in my head. There's a thriller I've written that I think would be nice to set in the '70s or '80s, just to take cell phones away from the movie. There's nothing like the piercing ring of an old-school telephone to really scare an audience. "
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" Every now and then, I have a deep thought. "
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" I grew up being taught, 'Do unto others as they would do unto you.' I would get scolded for not being polite. "
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" I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was out of necessity in the beginning. Over time, I began to see that I could create the roles I wanted to play rather than just waiting around. "
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" Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set. "
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" It feels good to be fit and strong. "
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" The only way for you to show what you can do is to actually do. "
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" If, at the end of the day, I can look back and see pictures of all the characters I've played, and there's a smorgasbord of weirdos and interesting, odd, different characters, I'd be so happy. "
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" I operate under the theory that all publicity is good publicity, and then, if that theory doesn't work, you just say that any newspaper article ends up on the bottom of the parrot cage. But, of course, you can't line a parrot cage with Internet bloggers, can you? "
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" People talk about the difference between working on stage and working on film. I think you could say that there are as many differences between working on low budget films and working on big budget films. You really are doing the same thing, but at the same time you're doing something vastly different as well. "
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