Emile Hirsch Quotes

• When you’re reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya!

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• When I got a lap dance, because I was 17, they had to put a massive pillow between me and the girl when she was grinding me. It was weird, yet pleasurable.

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• Well, when I was a kid and I watched ‘Speed Racer,’ I used to always watch it in the morning with my cereal. And when I ate the cereal, I would pour soda into the cereal because we never really had milk for some reason, I don’t know.

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• 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.

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• There’s something just so kind of smooth about politicians.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• On ‘Into The Wild’ I spent months risking my life and on ‘Speed Racer’ I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• In Dogtown, skateboards are like bikes to the Chinese.

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

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• I’ve realized that what you think of when you make a ‘big movie,’ if it’s actually a green screen movie, it’s like doing independent New York theater because you don’t have any backgrounds or props. So it’s kind of like making the lowest budgeted film you could possibly imagine, plus $100 million.

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• I’ve definitely had ideas and plans that sometimes exceed my means and capabilities.

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

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

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• I’m a very, very conservative driver.

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• I was so grateful to have made ‘Into the Wild’ before I made ‘Speed Racer’ because on ‘Speed Racer’ I was indoors every single day, every single scene, on a green screen. Some of the time, just to pass the time, I would think back to climbing mountains in Alaska. That really helped me.

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• 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.

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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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