Eric Bana Quotes

• 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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• I always find that 90% of the performance, for me, is about what comes from inside.

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• I don’t like to come at my character from some really technical place.

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• Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.

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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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• 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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• I’m a bit of a romantic.

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• I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me.

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• 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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• I have a theory that I really want my kids to know – the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work.

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• The reason my kids come to the set is so I can actually see them.

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• As an actor I’ve been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.

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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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• 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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• The longer you have something, the stronger the bond. That’s true with people as well as things.

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• I really enjoy working on small films.

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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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• I guess subconsciously that all the great people you work with have an influence on you.

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• I’ve always been a bit of a car freak.

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• I like the unknown. I like mystery.

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Eric Bana (69)

Birth:	9th August, 1968
Nationality:	Australian
Profession:	Actor, Comedian

About

Eric Bana was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He is an Australian actor and comedian. He began his career as a comedian in the sketch comedy series Full Frontal before gaining critical recognition in the biographical crime film Chopper. He has since played Hector in the movie Troy, the lead in Steven Spielberg's historical drama and political thriller Munich. He played police sergeant Ralph Sarchie in the horror film Deliver Us from Evil. His other films include: Black Hawk Down, Hulk, Star Trek, and Lone Survivor. He received Australia's highest film and television awards for his performances in Chopper, Full Frontal and Romulus, My Father.

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