Joel Edgerton Quotes

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

This is an imperfect world, as actors, athletes, priests and presidents soon discover. Writers have known this from the day they read their first review.

Everybody has a good idea, but nothing goes as planned.

Playing bad is always more fun than playing good.

I slipped at a bus stop; I went one way and my hair went the other. That was the end of my wig.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.

When someone gets a success, and we, too, have done good work and sometimes even better work than the person who has just triumphed, we wonder: 'Why did success pass me by?'

I always like stories where the egg ends up on my face.

When you plan something, it never works.

You can't have a perfect show every time.

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

I have a fear of doing stuff that's not very good and being remembered for that.

To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'

I've been telling people 'I'm going to go to California, and I'm going to be a big star' since the womb, but lately it was immediately followed by, 'Would you like soup or salad with that?'

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

30 years and 55 pictures - not more than five that were any good, or any good for me.

I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at.

When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled.

I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.

I did a show called 'Freaks and Geeks' when I was very young. And I had the naivete and arrogance of youth. You know, I really assumed that when the show got cancelled, like, oh, it doesn't matter, you just keep rolling, you know. I'm about to be the biggest star of the world. And then I was met with five years of unemployment.

Realize that you can't make everyone happy.

You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.

It wasn't my finest hour. It wasn't even my finest hour and a half.

Pure unadulterated success is not as funny as failure.