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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.
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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You know when somebody really knows what they're drawing from and you can feel it when you see the movie.
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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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Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.
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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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People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.
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I wish I were more musically gifted, more intuitive in playing instruments.
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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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I start to get fixated on a story and a character and an idea, and at a certain point, I really want to do it. It's a compulsion to explore a specific thing, as opposed to a compulsion to direct, generally speaking.
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I just don't think most of us are aware how much of what we throw away ends up in the ocean, for starters. Plastic bags are among the worst. The US is actually falling behind the curve on that score. China and many other countries have already banned the production and use of thin plastic bags.
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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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Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
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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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You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.
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I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.
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If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.
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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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