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Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

Edward Norton

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Edward Norton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 18
Actor
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Environmentalist
Film Actor
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Boston
Massachusetts
Edward Harrison Norton
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You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label. There's like, 18 different independent film-financing funds. In fact, I think the children of those films are getting made. A more interesting question is whether those films are going to get seen and appreciated.
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I think technology is having a democratising effect on film.
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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'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 to get into a lot of things besides movies. I've been very involved with a few specific efforts. We built this park in New York and it's been a very successful project... I worked on a conservation project in East Africa... Too much of this type of stuff can get you wrapped up in your own work and I love it.
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When I was very small, I had that first-time-you-see-a-play experience, which immediately made me want to act, because it seemed like this incredible outlet for something I was already doing fairly compulsively anyway, which was putting on hats and costumes and doing funny voices. It was a very natural compulsion for me.
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Obviously plastics have served very important purposes and been incredibly convenient but as we begin to witness the long-term consequences of the chemical components leaching into our water and our bodies, we're going to be forced to look for alternatives to how we package goods and food.
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I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.
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The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.
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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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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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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 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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I had a huge advantage with Edward Norton because he's directed a movie before, so one thing he appreciates is how hard my job is, he's very sensitive to that. We actually ended up finishing Leaves of Grass a day early.
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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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I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.
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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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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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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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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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