Emile Hirsch Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy the top 42 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Emile Hirsch.
Famous Quotes By Emile Hirsch
Even just a normal shot I find that much more interesting because of the 3D. It's like a shot of a couple of cars and us walking and it's like, "Oh wow, this is 3D. I've never seen this before!". — Emile Hirsch
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
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
I'm sort of like a rat in a maze - I'm moving forward, and any choice I make at the time seems like the only one I can make. — Emile Hirsch
I've definitely had ideas and plans that sometimes exceed my means and capabilities. — Emile Hirsch
'Brokeback Mountain' just blew me away. I'll always remember talking to Heath Ledger just after he finished that movie and he was going on about working with Ang and how incredible he was. — Emile Hirsch
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. — Emile Hirsch
Believe it or not, I got into the charismatic, shady, sly heart of Sedgewick Bell by watching CNN and C-SPAN. — Emile Hirsch
That's really good for an actor - to like the people behind the scenes - because then you treat the camera differently. If you really like someone who's shooting you, you're more open. You're not defensive, you're more relaxed, and I think that translates into a more interesting, natural performance. — Emile Hirsch
I don't really like the slogan 'It boy.' — Emile Hirsch
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
James Dean taught me not to speed, River Phoenix taught me not to DO speed, and Marlon Brando taught me to slow down on the cheeseburgers. — Emile Hirsch
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
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. — Emile Hirsch
A lot of the stuff in 'Speed Racer' has never been done before, from it having a multi-tone, to it having a retro-cool family movie, to having the photo-realism with the CG-backgrounds and infinite focus the way they worked with these digital cameras, to even the color experimentation. — Emile Hirsch
I'm not staying away from any genre. I'm trying to get scripts that I like. — Emile Hirsch
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. — Emile Hirsch
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
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
How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain? — Emile Hirsch
I have a lot of people in my life who are truly ridiculous characters, and they're very, very funny people, but they don't really try to be. They're not cracking jokes. — Emile Hirsch
Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good. — Emile Hirsch
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. — Emile Hirsch
People always ask me about career choices, though it rarely ever seems like any kind of choice. It's just like, I really want to do something, this is what I can do, and that's it. I'm lucky to be doing this at all. — Emile Hirsch
I remember when I saw 'The Matrix' when I was 13, I saw it in the theaters, and I was so blown away by it. It was one of the most memorable experiences I definitely ever had in the theater. — Emile Hirsch
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
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
Most actors are lucky to ever get a job, period. I never forget that, because I have so many actor friends in L.A., and most of us barely ever work. And those of us that do, it's still only 60 days out of the year that we're actually on camera. It's an absurdly low number. — Emile Hirsch
A lot of the things I find funniest about people are their shortcomings that they're oblivious to, but that they're constantly reminding everyone around them of. — Emile Hirsch
As far as dieting and weight loss go, diet and exercise actually works. Lots of running and healthy eating. — Emile Hirsch
Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme. — Emile Hirsch
I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river. — Emile Hirsch
If you give an actor any wiggle room to whine in situations where they want to whine, you're gonna whine. — Emile Hirsch
There's something just so kind of smooth about politicians. — Emile Hirsch
In Dogtown, skateboards are like bikes to the Chinese. — Emile Hirsch
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
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. — Emile Hirsch