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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.
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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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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Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
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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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Making really great music, making really great films, writing great books is an antidote to all of that. And, as people, as artists, some of the massive disruption that technology is causing is so exciting, the way that people can share creativity now.
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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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Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.
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If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.
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Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.
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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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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 film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.
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