Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time.
Joel Edgerton
One wrong move, and you destroy your career.
Sometimes, what's not said is just as important to the writing as what is said. As a writer, we have our voices heard. I think that, at oftentimes, the ability to allow the dialogue to recede properly into the world of the film is also a really valid sort of way to be a writer, I think.
Having rain on your tuxedo is a pretty good reminder that you're not James Bond.
I had a bit of a martial arts background from when I was a teenager: I did a bit of karate.
Actors are excused from a lot of things, and we get away with a lot... I find it equally interesting and exciting as it is disgusting and bizarre.
You have to stick to what you love and purse that at all costs. Don't choose money first; it won't make you happy.
I grew up being taught, 'Do unto others as they would do unto you.' I would get scolded for not being polite.
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.
I've signed four autographs for Sam Worthington in L.A., and I haven't told any of the people that I'm not him.
I had a black belt in Shotokan as a kid.
I worked for a big department store, and strangely, on my first day, they put me in charge of Christmas wrapping. I didn't know how to wrap a present and make it not look like it fell off a truck.
I have always stuck to my guns about what I want from the work and what interests me. I've never been seduced down the evil path. The path of taking the money.
I have an issue with the commercial aspect of moviemaking: I don't see why a movie can't make a lot of money and also be good.
I always wonder why people cast me in anything.
I did have someone tell me that I looked like Conan O'Brien. I was like, 'What?'
If, at the end of the day, I can look back and see pictures of all the characters I've played, and there's a smorgasbord of weirdos and interesting, odd, different characters, I'd be so happy.
I really like kids.
People love boxing, but you've gotta wait two or three years for your favorite boxer to have a fight.
All I can say is working with Ridley Scott is a dream come true.
I love so much what I do that I spend so much time thinking about it, and then I go home, and then I'm thinking about it, so it's nice sometimes when a movie is over, and then the niggling feelings about whether you've did it right or not start to ebb away.
I don't have any kids of my own.
If I'm going to work for twelve hours a day, I want twelve hours of awesomeness!
I'm pretty skeptical about Hollywood and its fascination with the sequel and the franchise.
I've never seen a film get away completely unscathed like I have 'Animal Kingdom.' There's not a single bad review that I've read of it yet; all through Sundance, all it got was high praise.
Everybody's a mix of good and bad choices that they make.
I would have happily done 'Bourne Legacy,' but a lot of decisions are made for you.
I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.
I'm really great at making terrible analogies.
I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.
Some people are really good at playing the movie star - they are really good at cultivating that mystique - but I'm not really into that.
Gavin O'Connor, I'd walk into a fire for that guy. He's a brilliant filmmaker and a passionate man.
I came out of high school, where my heroes were, like, Michael Jordan and a lot of local rugby players - and on the movie front, it was Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.
I thought I'd be married and a father by 35.
Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?
I don't want to be too power-hungry.
I have this theory that alpha males are actually not alpha males. They're actually very scared - particularly scared of competition from a lot of men.
The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.
There's a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don't get in touch with.
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.
I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the scripts I read in my acting life.
Pulled pork jokes never get old.
Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.
Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?
I think the great thing about religion is it's there to teach us the good path and that we're all equal, that we should be treated as such.
Actors want to act; actors want to emote. It's like the emotional equivalent of tearing your shirt off and screaming to the heavens: you want to express, and you want to be seen to be expressing.
It's easier to play aggression and malevolence onscreen, often, than to hit softer notes.
My brother and I are best friends.
I operate under the theory that all publicity is good publicity, and then, if that theory doesn't work, you just say that any newspaper article ends up on the bottom of the parrot cage. But, of course, you can't line a parrot cage with Internet bloggers, can you?
I'm the great-great-grandson of a sheep stealer.
