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" My wife and I really, really like each other as well as love each other. "
Eric Bana
Other
Wife
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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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" The movies people don't talk about or remember after six months' time don't really matter. "
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" Technically speaking, you can build anything out of sand; it doesn't mean you do it. "
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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 would never say never to returning to comedy. "
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" I'm spending all my time and energy on the project at hand. "
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" I've always been a bit of a car freak. "
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" The only thing that may make me different from other people is I have passionate interests outside of work. "
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" By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way. "
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" There wasn't a moment where I got into cars. It wasn't a conscience decision or something that came later, it was there since I was born. I just love it. "
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Moment
Conscience
" 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'm a bit of a romantic. "
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Romantic
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" I guess subconsciously that all the great people you work with have an influence on you. "
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Great
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" If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character? "
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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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Back
Daughter
Hate
" It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live. "
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Live
Always
" I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable. "
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Control
Situation
I Am
" The longer you have something, the stronger the bond. That's true with people as well as things. "
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Stronger
Bond
True
" I think there are times when you walk onto a set you can potentially be either intimidated or distracted by what's going on around you. "
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" I don't like to come at my character from some really technical place. "
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" I've worked with some of the great cinematographers. So I'm always watching what they do and I'm watching how the director composes his shots, just because I find it interesting as an actor; you're trying to help them out as well. "
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You
Help
Great
" I really enjoy working on small films. "
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Enjoy
Really
Small
" 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 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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Bench
Used
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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'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. "
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Plan
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" I occasionally go to the gym and I lift free weights, I don't use machines. "
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Free
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" 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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" 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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Great
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" 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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Fly
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