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Edward Norton Quotes

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: August 18, 1969

Topics

Motivational Empathy Sympathy Thought

The theater I got to do informs every move I make as an actor and will for the rest of my life. I can't shake it if I wanted to, but I don't want to.

Life Rest My Life Want Actor Will

Of the two, I considered it more important to avoid a war with England about Oregon than a war with Mexico, important as I thought it was to avoid that.

John C. Calhoun

War Thought Important More Mexico

People don't think the struggles gay people have are worth talking about because everyone's decided that we're all equals now. Those struggles are much more subtle now. But the weight of being different does carry on.

People Being Different Think Talking

There was a model in my high school. She was like, 'You're so pretty. You should come see my agency'.

School High School You She See High

The last thing an Englishman wants to hear is a man from Brussels trying to imitate his language - you want to hear a different point of view. You may not be able to understand the details, but you can understand the feeling.

Man Language Details View You Want

When I moved to Hollywood, I was expecting it to be this Mecca of extraordinarily talented musicians, and it was instead the era of Faster Pussycat and bands that had an appeal, but I couldn't do anything like that. There's nothing in my being that can do anything like that.

Musicians Hollywood Nothing Anything

There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.

Disappointment Hurt Madness Line

I remember with my first album, I was so scared of messing it up, of blowing the opportunity, that I blew it.

Opportunity Remember First Up Scared

If I dream that I'm directing, it's not a film, it's like a commercial for cotton candy, and I've got four feet of cotton candy all around me that I've got to break through, like a brick wall or a fortress.

Me Feet Dream Brick Wall Candy

They're putting cement dust into cattle feed to make the cows heavier; the FDA knows all about it.

Dust Cattle Feed Cows Knows FDA

Deathstroke is a villain. Don't come to the book with any expectations that he will, in any way or sense or form, act heroically. He's a bad guy, and that's the fun of it.

Christopher Priest

Fun Villain Book Expectations Bad

Things always happen in series.

Always Happen Things Series

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