Joel Edgerton Quotes

I think a lot of acting is having the confidence to be open enough to try things and not be afraid of falling on your face and looking like a fool.

I think to be courageous, you have to be afraid. For me, it feels very courageous when I go skiing because I'm very, very afraid to ski. It's dangerous! I feel very scared. But when I'm acting, I don't feel very scared.

I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.

Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.

You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.

I had no idea who I was when I started. I was frightened to death and had no natural performing skills.

I think, as an actor, you're constantly confronted with your fear of sticking your neck out.

Putting your work out there is scary!

Write what you’re scared about.

I think every writer doubts themselves, every day. You procrastinate because you're afraid. You're always afraid it's not going to be as good as you want it to be. But, the key is overcoming fear.

The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life.

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.

What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself.

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their peers. There comes a time when they start protecting themselves, instead of extending. I want to make sure that they're always trying to extend themselves.

If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.

Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.

No one got anywhere by being too scared to open their mouth in case nobody laughed.