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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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Edward Norton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 18
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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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When I was about 16 or 17, I had a teacher who took a group of us to the National Theater in Washington, D.C., and I saw Ian McKellen do his one-man show - I think it was called Acting Shakespeare - and it completely bombed me it put the zap on my brain in a big way.
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In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.
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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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You can't control everything that comes to you.
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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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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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It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.
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The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.
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It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.
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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 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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I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.
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If two people are at completely different stages in their spiritual life, that can present a real problem.
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I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.
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My greatest hope is that we transcend the most fearful thing, which is that we are rapidly degrading the ecological systems on this planet that support everything we are doing and all life on it.
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You dream as an actor's director of letting moments breathe through two-shots.
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I knew Danny DeVito and he knew me, so he wanted me to try Death to Smoochy. I loved that stuff and had a great time doing it.
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I studied French forever, and when do I ever speak French? I clearly should have studied Spanish. I wish I had stuck with music, because that would still be great. I really wish I had learned to surf earlier in my life.
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