Joel Edgerton Quotes

• Whereas ‘Avatar’ and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, ‘Gatsby’ is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work.

  Joel Edgerton

• Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.

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• To act with a tennis ball and imagine it’s a tentacle, or if you’re in some kind of wilderness film and you go, ‘Okay, we can’t have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there’s a grizzly bear.’ I don’t know. They’re tough moments.

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• There’s the pressure of being a No. 1 on the call sheet, being a lead actor. There’s almost this feeling like being captain of the team. You want to put a bit of energy into actually setting a good example.

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• There’s a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don’t get in touch with.

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• The tricky thing becomes: Do you know yourself well enough to then portray that on screen? And for me, I find that really hard. I’d rather hide behind accents and funny walks.

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• The sum total of all my stop-starts have made me less concerned about the future. I’m just aware now that I’ll always land on my feet somehow.

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• ‘The Great Gatsby’ ticked so many boxes for me.

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• The first video I ever watched was on a Beta system because everyone thought Beta was the way but then it ended up being video so we backed the wrong horse.

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• The biggest difference for me is momentum. On a smaller film you get to shoot sometimes four or five scenes a day and you’ve got to do the tight schedule. I think I really feel the luxuries of a big budget film.

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• That’s one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you’d never know about.

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• Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you’ll only play central characters in movies, you’ll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting.

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• One of the things I’ve always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it’s also about stillness and silence.

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• My brother and I are best friends.

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• It’s tricky. I’ve never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I’ve never really had a profile. So in a way I have this ‘nothing to lose’ attitude.

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• It feels good to be fit and strong.

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• I’m single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that’s me.

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• I’m on the list that I thought I’d never be on. I’m not sitting here thinking, ‘God, I might get this part’ or ‘is it too late for me to play Hamlet?’ It’s really about: who do I get to work with? There’s so many people on that list.

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• I’m not going to allow myself to second-guess projects. I’m just going to do the ones that I fully love and believe in – that’s a real privilege.

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• I’m hardly digging trenches for a living. I’m getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.

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Joel Edgerton (25)

Birth:	23rd June, 1974
Nationality:	Australian
Profession:	Actor, Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter

About

Joel Edgerton was born in Blacktown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is an Australian actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. He studied at Nepean Drama School, the University of Western Sydney. His role in several films include: Race the Sun, Praise, Sample People, Ned Kelly, Kinky Boots, Smokin' Aces, Whisper, The Square (also writer), Separation City, Animal Kingdom (Won- AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role), Warrior, Zero Dark Thirty, Felony (also writer, producer), The Gift (also director, producer, writer, Nominated- Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing), Jane Got a Gun (also writer), Loving (Nominated- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor), It Comes at Night, Bright (upcoming film December 2017), Red Sparrow (upcoming film March 2018), and Boy Erased (upcoming film September 2018, also director, producer, writer). His role in television include: Secret Men's Business (TV film), The Three Stooges (TV film), The Secret Life of Us (TV drama series, Won- AACTA Award for Best Lead Actor in 2002), Dangerous (TV series), and Dirt Game (TV series).

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