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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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Edward Norton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 18
Actor
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Boston
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Edward Harrison Norton
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I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.
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Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
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If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.
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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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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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You can't control everything that comes to you.
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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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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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A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.
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If you feel like someone just knows what this is about to their core, they're going to have that special confidence in it.You stop looking at the seams and they start inhabiting the same space and start interacting with each .
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Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.
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I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.
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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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I'm a Tulsa Jew and I have a religious upbringing.
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To me, Fight Club was a comedy. When [David] Fincher sent me the book and I read it, the first thing I asked him was, This is a comedy, right? he said, Yeah, that's the whole point, and I said, Okay, I'm in. I certainly wasn't imagining myself as a dramatic actor when I was running around in my underwear in that film.
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