Joel Edgerton Quotes & Sayings

Gavin O'Connor, I'd walk into a fire for that guy. He's a brilliant filmmaker and a passionate man. — Joel Edgerton

There's a certain relief to just being the guy who puts on the costume and walks onset and gets to prance or stomp around in a Ridley Scott or Baz Luhrmann movie. — Joel Edgerton

'Animal Kingdom' feels like a suburban Melbourne version of 'The Godfather 'to me. It's epic and Shakespearean in its story, and yet you still feel like you can reach out and touch it. — Joel Edgerton

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. — Joel Edgerton

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. — Joel Edgerton

I love the idea of real-life experiences finding their way into fiction. I think that's really cool. — Joel Edgerton

It's an incredibly liberating feeling to have a skirt on. In fact, I know you can buy skirts, and you can buy work kilts and all sorts of stuff. — Joel Edgerton

Part of the privilege of being an actor is the people you get to work with. — Joel Edgerton

I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was out of necessity in the beginning. Over time, I began to see that I could create the roles I wanted to play rather than just waiting around. — Joel Edgerton

Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us? — Joel Edgerton

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. — Joel Edgerton

Blue Tongue Films is a very important part of my life. — Joel Edgerton

I don't want to be too power-hungry. — Joel Edgerton

The best jujitsu practitioners are really serene and grounded. — Joel Edgerton

Some of us are better at owning the responsibility of our actions than others. — Joel Edgerton

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. — Joel Edgerton

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. — Joel Edgerton

Basically you want as many people as possible to see your movie. — Joel Edgerton

A lot of the fighters will say you'll know if a fighter's won or lost just by a fighter's eyes - whether they're scared of the other person. — Joel Edgerton

I wanted to make a redemptive thriller that didn't end with some kind of big, crazy shootout and blood spill, but more of a collision of ideas and a discussion of ethics. — Joel Edgerton

I don't call acting a real job, and writing is a hobby. — Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know? — Joel Edgerton

I think it's great to be able to go and watch a short film before you watch a feature. — Joel Edgerton

It's funny how sometimes you learn things off the Internet before they're actually told to you. — Joel Edgerton

You've got to be really careful that you're not falling into the Hollywood trap, you know? — Joel Edgerton

I find it strange when people can't relate to kids, because you were a kid once, you know? — Joel Edgerton

I'm really good at judging and observing other people, but not myself. — Joel Edgerton

I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin. — Joel Edgerton

I'm the great-great-grandson of a sheep stealer. — Joel Edgerton

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. — Joel Edgerton

There's something nice about making a night of the theater rather than sitting in front of your TV. — Joel Edgerton

I never really think too much about my voice. — Joel Edgerton

I had a black belt in Shotokan as a kid. — Joel Edgerton

Polo is like playing golf with a saddle, and there are a lot of moving parts. — Joel Edgerton

I often put any project I write in a different decade just to roll the thought around in my head. There's a thriller I've written that I think would be nice to set in the '70s or '80s, just to take cell phones away from the movie. There's nothing like the piercing ring of an old-school telephone to really scare an audience. — Joel Edgerton

There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority. — Joel Edgerton

I really like kids. — Joel Edgerton

Unfortunately, the Egyptians weren't the greatest artists in the world. — Joel Edgerton

I tend to take on a lot of things. And then they all just seem to happen at once. Or maybe I'm not good at saying 'No'. But the juggling's fun. — Joel Edgerton

Whenever you're trying to do your own take on a classic piece of literature, it's almost like you're trying to swim up your own stream or drive down your own path. — Joel Edgerton

I was a good boy; I was never in trouble for anything. — Joel Edgerton

We are people in circumstances who make choices that we think are right at the time. — Joel Edgerton

To me, I think I'm just going to keep focused and forward on what I'm doing, work-wise, rather than searching for any kind of meaning in it. — Joel Edgerton

The last TV show I binged on was 'Hannibal' because it stars two of my friends, Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy, who I first met filming 'King Arthur' back in 2003, and I just lapped this show up; loved it. — Joel Edgerton

There's a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don't get in touch with. — Joel Edgerton

People love boxing, but you've gotta wait two or three years for your favorite boxer to have a fight. — Joel Edgerton

I don't have any kids of my own. — Joel Edgerton

One wrong move, and you destroy your career. — Joel Edgerton

When I was young, I had a very clear point of view on things in life, on moral questions. There was a black and white viewpoint on my world. As I've gotten older, I see the grey areas appear. — Joel Edgerton

It feels good to be fit and strong. — Joel Edgerton

Getting the call from Ridley Scott made me think that sometimes you just need to go to work. — Joel Edgerton

The nature of human beings is that we're competitive, and the chances are there's someone out there who's going to work harder than you and want it more than you. — Joel Edgerton

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. — Joel Edgerton

This is the world we live in, isn't it? Tons of spin-offs; people reboot things very quickly. I was amazed how quickly they made a Wolverine movie, then, 'Let's do another origins Wolverine movie.' — Joel Edgerton

Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time. — Joel Edgerton

The downside to making movies at a gallop like we did with 'Wish You Were Here' is that we're shooting four or five scenes in a day, and it's very exhilarating, but you worry at the end of the day that you missed some details because you were moving too quick, and you just gotta trust and be ready straightaway. — Joel Edgerton

Stunt work offers a diversity of roles and, while I'm used to anonymity, I really like showing off and performing in front of camera, though I know my limitations. — Joel Edgerton

My brother and I are best friends. — Joel Edgerton

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. — Joel Edgerton

I grew up being taught, 'Do unto others as they would do unto you.' I would get scolded for not being polite. — Joel Edgerton

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. — Joel Edgerton

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. — Joel Edgerton

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? — Joel Edgerton

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. — Joel Edgerton

I never imagined myself in a movie with magic. — Joel Edgerton

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters. — Joel Edgerton

Every now and then, I have a deep thought. — Joel Edgerton

I reckon I would be able compare anything to anything else if you gave me enough time. — Joel Edgerton

Australians and the British are very similar: If you try and stand out in any way, and you try to reach for success, someone is gonna be there to cut you down. — Joel Edgerton

Really, no-one is bad except for serial killers and dictators. — Joel Edgerton

I wasted too much time in my twenties. I worked, but I would do theater in the evening, and during the day I would surf and do irascible things. And then, for some reason, as I got closer to my thirties, I thought, 'Okay Joel, you've wasted enough time.' — Joel Edgerton

I couldn't do 'Eleanor Rigby' because it was clashing with another project - something I was going to go do - something with Liv Ullmann. — Joel Edgerton

I'm not scared of doing movies that are just about entertainment. I'm not scared of doing movies that are really challenging and cover difficult terrain. I just want good experiences and I want to challenge myself and I want to just keep learning, as an actor. — Joel Edgerton

I think the life of an actor is glamorous to other people, but then the reality sets in: you don't know where you will be next year or how long you'll be there for. — Joel Edgerton

I don't appreciate, really, talking to journalists when there's a sense of wanting to kick up dust to sell more papers or get more hits on their Internet site. — Joel Edgerton

I spent a lot of time outdoors as a kid. — Joel Edgerton

I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me. — Joel Edgerton

I can't sing or dance. — Joel Edgerton

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. — Joel Edgerton

I'm pretty skeptical about Hollywood and its fascination with the sequel and the franchise. — Joel Edgerton

I don't necessarily see myself as an experienced filmmaker just because I've been in a few movies. — Joel Edgerton

I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to fiction. — Joel Edgerton

I remember being bullied at school, and I remember being cruel to other kids. — Joel Edgerton

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. — Joel Edgerton

I oftentimes find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity. — Joel Edgerton

I thought I'd be married and a father by 35. — Joel Edgerton

It's easier to play aggression and malevolence onscreen, often, than to hit softer notes. — Joel Edgerton

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. — Joel Edgerton

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. — Joel Edgerton

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. — 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. — Joel Edgerton

If I knew my schedule a month ahead, I'd be so bored. — Joel Edgerton

I'd never really imagined myself as an action star. — Joel Edgerton

Even to this day, when I think about the fact that I'm in this 'Star Wars' world, that I'm a half-brother to Darth Vader and an uncle to Luke Skywalker, it's too hard to wrap my head around. — Joel Edgerton

I really believe guilt finds its way out of a person. — Joel Edgerton

Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas on the screen. You can't hide behind some other person's script; you're saying, 'This is my brain, and I want you to know what I think'.' — Joel Edgerton

The little bit of buzz around 'Warrior' led to a lot of opportunities anyway, before the movie even came out. — Joel Edgerton

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. — Joel Edgerton

The recipe for any character is always very interesting, as far as what doses of certain qualities you want. — Joel Edgerton

'The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me. — Joel Edgerton