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" My chosen exercise is cycling. I just love it. "
Eric Bana
Exercise
Cycling
Just
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" I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination. "
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Good
Imagination
" I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable. "
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Control
Situation
I Am
" It's always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work. "
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Actor
Work
Only
" 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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Energy
Enough
Feel
" I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair. "
Eric Bana
Hair
Best
Motorcycle
" The longer you have something, the stronger the bond. That's true with people as well as things. "
Eric Bana
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Bond
True
" I've always described parts as tattoos. For actors our tattoos are in the form of films. "
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Always
Our
Parts
" 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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Love
Speak
Wrong
" I've given no thought to moving to America at all. "
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America
Thought
Moving
" 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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Time
You
Know
" I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible. "
Eric Bana
Disappointment
Plan
Never
" When I shoot I'll take my family with me - one movie a year and then the rest of the time at home. "
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Family
Year
Home
" I occasionally go to the gym and I lift free weights, I don't use machines. "
Eric Bana
Weights
Free
Go
" I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I've finished a movie but don't tell anyone. "
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Muscle
Back
Home
" My wife and I really, really like each other as well as love each other. "
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Other
Wife
Really
" The movies people don't talk about or remember after six months' time don't really matter. "
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Talk
Time
Remember
" 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. "
Eric Bana
Stupid
Risks
Kid
" 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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You
People
Know
" 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. "
Eric Bana
I Can
Film
Family
" 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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Writing
Creative
Me
" I'm a bit of a romantic. "
Eric Bana
Romantic
Bit
" 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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Think
Acting
You
" When I go on the plane to fly home, I'm literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home, home. "
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Choose
Fly
Job
" I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, 'Bring back the spikes, Dad.' "
Eric Bana
Back
Daughter
Hate
" I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely. "
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You
Mourning
Mourn
" 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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School
Love
Who
" I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a much harder thing to bottle. If you have both, you're in pretty good shape. "
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Love
You
Think
" 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. "
Eric Bana
Say
You
Slow
" I never look at the size of the film when I'm looking for a part. "
Eric Bana
Look
Part
Size
" I don't like to come at my character from some really technical place. "
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Character
Place