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It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

Edward Norton

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Edward Norton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 18
Actor
Character Actor
Environmentalist
Film Actor
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Boston
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Edward Harrison Norton
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When I was about 16 or 17, I had a teacher who took a group of us to the National Theater in Washington, D.C., and I saw Ian McKellen do his one-man show - I think it was called Acting Shakespeare - and it completely bombed me it put the zap on my brain in a big way.
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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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Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively.
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If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.
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If there's a criteria that really gets me interested in a work besides any type of personal interaction with the theme, it's if I feel like this is the right piece of work for that director at that moment in their career.
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I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.
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People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.
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The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.
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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 don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.
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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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You dream as an actor's director of letting moments breathe through two-shots.
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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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If two people are at completely different stages in their spiritual life, that can present a real problem.
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There are tens of thousands of charities and hundreds of thousands, getting towards millions, of people now using it. And when I flip through it, I'm just blown away by people.
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The deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away. It's more challenging to me, but it's also just interesting. Those are the things I like to watch. I like to watch the evolutions of something.
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I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies - intelligence usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of formal education.
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What has always been most interesting about acting to me personally is that it affords you the chance to shift gears, both in terms of the experiences you get to have through doing it, but also the different kinds of things you get to represent.
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If I'm trying to put size on for a role, then I don't do much running.
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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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