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Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Edward Norton

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Edward Norton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 18
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Edward Harrison Norton
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The Zionist Tulsa Jew who's pugnacious is a reality. I grew up around it. And I think it's really, really funny and surprising and unlikely.
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If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look at it that way.
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I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.
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All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.
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Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.
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I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw?
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People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.
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Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family.
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The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.
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People say you can't make movies about your politics or the environment. And, generally speaking, I completely divide those sides of my brain.
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You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.
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Any questions I had about whether a redneck from Oklahoma could become a Brown Classical Philosophy professor ended when I met Tim [Blake Nelson].
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I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.
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When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want.
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With Edward Norton you'd never say, This is the one we're going with whether you like it or not. It has to be agreed upon.
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When I think of my background, if I was privileged on any level, it was in terms of the kind of exposure to experience and bohe-mian cultural influence that my parents and my uncles and my grandfather gave me. On both sides I come from an extremely eccentric, artsy, intellectually intense, activist family.
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If two people are at completely different stages in their spiritual life, that can present a real problem.
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I've observed over and over that people seem to get a much deeper sense of fulfillment out of something they've done as an act of service than out of the things they do for themselves.
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I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.
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