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" There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there. "

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" 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. "

Edward Norton

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

" I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions. "

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

" It's nice when someone knows their lines. "

" In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story. "

" The period western doesn't have a lot to say to most people today. "

" I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles. "

" I think a lot of people in their average day actually imagine two sides of a conversation at one point or another. I think that the mental trick of holding two sides of a conversation in your head is actually something that we all do. "

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

" I think we really feel like Crowdrise could be something that, 20 years from now, people take for granted because that's just how you do it, like if you're going to raise money for something, that's how you do it. "

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

Edward Norton

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it. "

" It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing. "

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

" People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies. "

" 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. "

" 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 remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school. "

" I just love movies. "

" You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with. "

" When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script. "

" I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up. "

Edward Norton

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" Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful. "

" Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles. "

" The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made. "

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

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

Edward Norton

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