Joel Edgerton Quotes

Money brings you security and choice. You can make decisions in a different way if you have a lot of money. But when you have nothing, you have a naivety, and a more fearless attitude because you have nothing to lose.

I'm generally a low-key guy.

When I first thought about leaving the traditional route of a 9-to-5 career to pursue full-time YouTube, it was terrifying - not many people were doing it. The thought was I have to have money saved up, because this very likely might fail. From the start, I had to give it my all for it to work.

The success of 'Scrubs' allowed me to pursue anything I felt passionately about without having to worry about money. It allowed me to spend my summer work shopping my show at a nonprofit theater.

In life, I'm pretty low-key and quite non-descript.

In July of 2010, I lost my finance job in Chicago. Instead of updating my resume and looking for a similar job, I decided to forget about money and have a go at something I truly enjoyed. I'd purchased a semi-professional camera earlier that year and spent my free time taking photos in downtown Chicago.

I'm just a low-key guy.

If I were to have an epitaph, I'd want it to read, 'She did stuff.'

I'm not a guy who needs the spotlight. It's not something I have to have. I'm content to sit at home.

I don't see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.

I've never had paparazzi follow me and I rarely get recognised. I dress like a tramp when I'm not working. My hairdresser calls me the Romanian window cleaner. That's just the way I am.

I grew up in a financially insecure place because I knew that my parents were following their dreams which has pros and cons. It was actually my mom who encouraged me to go to acting school because I was really afraid to put all my eggs in that basket.

I do my job - I don't try to seek the spotlight; that's not my way.

I'm not a guy who wants to push himself into the spotlight or stand out from the crowd.

I'm one of those people who would be OK with fading back into the background a little bit.

When I left my job at Lehman Brothers to start a company, my best friend's mother said, 'How could you leave a sure thing like Lehman to do a silly carpool startup?' That was three months before Lehman went bankrupt.

I really don't think I have anything special to say.

With everything I do, there always seems to be a massive risk involved.

I try to keep my life fairly simple. Being humble is really important.

I'm a background person.

People say they want to be in risky environments and do all kinds of exciting stuff. But they don't actually know what risk means: that risk actually does bring failure and mistakes.

This is not a family of privilege by any stretch of the imagination. Our family is very low key.

I don't see myself as anything special. I'm just Johnny Gargano. I always have been, no matter what I'm about to do or where I am.

I'm not a writer. As for direction, I don't have the guts to do that. Still you can never say never.

I'm never a flashy type of person.