Joel Edgerton Quotes

It is very nice to have good actors with you.

As an actress, you have to be very naive.

I like a lot of takes. I just go on until the actors get it right.

As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are.

As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, but you don't realize it.

Actor's life is very long.

I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.

Roles make the actor.

I think of myself as an actor.

I'm an actor. I'll take a lead if it's offered. The really good actors can fill a character, no matter what the role is. A good leading man is a character actor; a good character actor can be a leading man.

The beginning of my acting career was in London, England.

I started drama in high school.

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.

All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I can do. That's what I do. I'm an actor. And all the rest of it is like baseball. You hit the ball. Sometimes it goes in the hole. Sometimes it goes to the player.

I know from teaching that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.

Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.'

I'm always looking for a good role.

I used to do theater in L.A., but it got to the point where everything was really showcase-y.

I feel that I am a good actor.

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

I'm an actor's director.

I had always done theater during the entire six years I was with 'CSI: Miami.'

I'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way.

I'm just an actor.