Joel Edgerton Quotes

You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don't have that. I'm a banana.

Some people say that 'Drag Race' is about glory and immortalizing yourself in the Hall of Fame. For me, it's about shaking RuPaul down for her money.

It's strange for my friends when they see me on TV and in magazines, because the person that they see doing interviews and pictures on the red carpet is not the person that they know.

To pursue a career in Hollywood you have to have a personality bypass. Look at the top 20 stars in the world - there's probably only two actors among them. Hollywood's not about you as an actor. It's about your currency, what you 'bring to the table'. And I've never been one to jump through hoops for anyone.

I don't really think of myself or picture myself as a Hollywood person.

Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.

A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.

I know I walk a fine line between being a respected actor and being what they call a sex symbol.

Ronald Reagan had a kind of shallow movie-star charisma - a combination of makeup and the skill of a good actor - but it wasn't the real thing, and was something that he could turn off when the cameras weren't running.

I've had to work hard at that easy-going manner you see on screen.

Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.

Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it.

I'm aware that people see me as a sex symbol. But I know I can act.

There are two jobs. There is being an actor, and there is being a celebrity. Some people are really good at both. Some people are really good celebrities and terrible actors, and some people are really good actors and terrible celebrities. Hopefully, I am a really good actor and an OK celebrity.

Long before 'American Idol', people used to call me a diva. And I be like, 'Hold on, are you calling me something else on the sly? You gonna call me a diva, call me a good diva.'

On stage, don't go near her. She's the best performer in the world.

Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far.

Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'

After getting recognized in public from my picture on our pretzel bag, I can understand not wanting to be in the public eye. It has given me a public persona I had always avoided as a child. I do it because it's for a good cause.

Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.

It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.

I think there is a difference between being a celebrity and being an actor.

On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones.

Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.

I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.