Emile Hirsch Quotes

• There’s something about the good-hearted guy fighting the system. I just love that. That’s how ‘Speed’ is. He’s a really focused guy with a heart of gold and the corporations are trying to crush him and use him for his skills to make them more money.

  Emile Hirsch

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in System, Corporations

• We want to do for ‘Hamlet’ what Baz Luhrmann did for ‘Romeo and Juliet’ in terms of like a really cool kind of re-imagining.

  Emile Hirsch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hamlet, Story

• I don’t have an interest in any car that isn’t good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.

  Emile Hirsch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Quality, Picture

• I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It’s when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it’s just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again.

  Emile Hirsch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Misfortune

• I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river.

  Emile Hirsch

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Self, Identify

• I don’t really like the slogan ‘It boy.’

  Emile Hirsch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Slogan, Boy

• How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain?

  Emile Hirsch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Curtain

• Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

  Emile Hirsch

  Topics in Ambition

  Tags in Artistic, Theatre

• Believe it or not, I got into the charismatic, shady, sly heart of Sedgewick Bell by watching CNN and C-SPAN.

  Emile Hirsch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Heart, Charismatic, Person

• I know what wanting and craving adventure feels like, I can really relate to that.

  Emile Hirsch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adventure, Feels

• Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good.

  Emile Hirsch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Polite, Proper, Passage

• I think I’ve always been half out of my shell and half in. Sometimes I can be extremely wild and sometimes I can be extremely shy. It just depends on the day.

  Emile Hirsch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Think

• The genres are widening. I don’t think that there’s as many limitations on the kinds of projects that actors can do as there once was.

  Emile Hirsch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Limitations, Projects, Actors

• The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.

  Emile Hirsch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Willingness, Learning

• Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.

  Emile Hirsch

  Topics in Life, Risk

  Tags in Courage

• It was very, very challenging being on this thing called the gimbal. It would throw you around, give you whiplash, and they’d tie you down.

  Emile Hirsch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Challenging, Thing

• I’m not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.

  Emile Hirsch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Machine

• I’m a very, very conservative driver.

  Emile Hirsch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conservative, Driver

• If you give an actor any wiggle room to whine in situations where they want to whine, you’re gonna whine.

  Emile Hirsch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Actor, Situations

• I’m not staying away from any genre. I’m trying to get scripts that I like.

  Emile Hirsch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Genre, Scripts

Emile Hirsch (32)

Birth:	13th March, 1985
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Emile Davenport Hirsch was born in Palms, California, USA. He is an American film actor, whose works include Into the Wild, Lone Survivor, Milk, Prince Avalanche, The Motel Life, Speed Racer and the A&E networks simulcast miniseries Bonnie & Clyde. He appeared in many television roles in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including the award-winning Showtime original movie Wild Iris. He plays gay rights activist Cleve Jones in Gus Van Sant's 2008 Academy Award-winning Harvey Milk bio-pic Milk that featured Sean Penn in the title role. Additionally, he starred alongside Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey in the William Friedkin directed Killer Joe.

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