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You can't control everything that comes to you.
Edward Norton
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Edward Norton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 18
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Environmentalist
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Edward Harrison Norton
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I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school.
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As an actor, I don't have any politics. As an actor, I'm driven more by an authentic - I would say an obsessive-compulsive-disorder level-fixation on mimicry, tonality of voice, to literally imitate something until I can just disappear into it.
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On the downside, to paraphrase Thom Yorke talking about the music business, we're still having to deal with the stench of the last fart of the dying corpse of this regressive vision that America is a white, middle-aged, male, conservative country.
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When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.
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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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I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.
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It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.
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Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors.
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Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.
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I hear about actors being exterior actors and actors being instinctual actors and I always think it's crap. Anybody who knows anything about it knows that good actors do both - they do inside-outward and they do outside-inward. You can't not do both.
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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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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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There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.
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You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.
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You can do things in twin scenes now you couldn't before. You can implement actual moving cameras.
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Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.
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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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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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As we say in the sewer, time and tide wait for no man.
Edward Norton
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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