Joel Edgerton Quotes

My agent had warned that, while a fine film would do my profile a world of good, a bad one wouldn't help me at all, and I suspected she was soft-pedalling the latter possibility. The effect of a truly execrable adaptation is worse than neutral. The stink rubs off.

With longevity comes, 'Nothing is going to kill me; I cannot irreparably damage my career.' Those days are over. The most I can sustain are fender benders.

No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired.

When you don't work for a while, immediately you get a little black mark next to your name.

I think it's a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor.

I was devastated when 'Days' let me go and couldn't help but feel it was my fault. What did I do wrong? What happened? It sucks. You always think it's your fault.

I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods.

It is a career that can be enhanced or destroyed by success.

I mean, they're threatening - my career is over. You know, everything I've worked so hard. I've worked extremely hard since about 17 years old, you know, as a White House intern on up.

Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career.

It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.

I think people thought I was crazy for leaving Mexico when I had any project I wanted falling at my feet. But I risked everything to come to Los Angeles, where no one knew who I was, and start all over again. It was a very hard step to take. However, it was the moment I thought it was right to take a risk in my career.

If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell.

Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging.

There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.

Actually I don't choose to expose myself in public. I choose to compete; the other side just comes with the package.

I had a career at home, and I just knew that it'd be okay if nothing happened in Los Angeles.

Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.

I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.

It takes a career, a lifetime, to build up a reputation, and only one misstep for it all to crumble away.

Some people in the industry warned me that I'd ruin my career, miss out on possible jobs, and potentially put my life in danger if I ever came out.

A guy who gets fired and humiliated in the press can lose a lot of confidence.

Everybody, and that includes an actor, wants to go to work everyday. That said, it's better to sit at home than do a bad film. That can harm your career more than not having a release!

I want to be a manager, it wouldn't scare me, but I also think you could be sacked in six months and you'd have to take the kids back to school with your tail between your legs.

I don't want to be fired after two seasons and risk never getting another opportunity to coach.