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I buy myself a present whenever I don't get a role that I really wanted.
Alden Ehrenreich
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Alden Ehrenreich
Age: 34
Born: 1989
Born: November 22
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Alden Caleb Ehrenreich
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I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa which spoiled the hell out of me.
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[Warren's Beatty] first film being with this very important director [Elia Kazan], I think we related on that in a big way. And I just was genuinely curious about his experiences in film, and about the people he knew.
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I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff. So, getting to work with those kinds of directors and getting to tell those stories is what I want to do.
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With 'Hail, Caesar!' it was about all the skill sets I had to learn, but each movie requires a different way of working. You're a piece in a new world, and there is always a difficult part within that world. For me, it's not consistent from movie-to-movie, each film has a central challenge.
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Whenever you hear somebody else is auditioning for something, you sort of assume they're going to get it. You should try to just ignore it. I don't find it very helpful to know who else is going up for stuff, generally.
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You need those people to also have power and authority, and in a way that has been the story of my career.
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You get bummed out, and then you go, Oh! Now I get to go buy a present for myself. That kind of helps.
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I talked to Woody Allen for half an hour or something. It was pretty incredible. He really went into lots of detail about the story [in Blue Jasmin] and what actually happened. Just talking to him is very surreal.
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Warren [Beatty] did a very cool thing, where he directs in character.
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I'm trying to make myself sound better.
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I think you always feel like you're about a hair's breadth away from being a bad actor anyway... It's not too hard to let the rope go slack, so to speak.
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My parents weren't involved in show business but my parents would show me. We'd watch old films in the house.
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I didn't read the script [ Rules Don't Apply ] for a couple years. It basically amounted to this kind of apprenticeship with Warren [Beatty]: conversations and learning about his whole background in the film industry and his life.
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When Tetro came out, I met with Warren Beatty for the first time. I had, like, a four-and-a-half-hour lunch with him, and then over the next five years continued to meet with him and go to his house.
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I think that having had [Steven Spielberg's] confidence in me probably made me a little more immune to feeling as bad about myself in the face of rejection. I also was just so young - I was unaware enough to not take it too seriously.
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You do need these people to go out on a limb for you, thinking you're right for a role rather than having box office numbers.
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I got turned down for a million jobs until I got my first movie with Francis [Ford Coppola].
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I want to make movies that people see. I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impact on culture when they do.
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Even though I grew up in L.A., no one in my family was in the movie industry.
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