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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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Edward Norton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 18
Actor
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Journalist
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Edward Harrison Norton
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I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.
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I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.
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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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The thing I'm absolutely convinced of, no matter how crazy - technological the world is getting, is that people feel more connected through the good works. Entertainment, and the sort of soporific effect it has on people and their stress, is one thing.
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For me there's always a line or two in a script, when you hit it you almost decide to do the whole movie off a line or two. You almost do it for the fun of getting to say a line or two like that. I don't have any specific plans, you know. I mean, if Seth Rogen calls with a great buddy pic, I'll be there.
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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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If two people are at completely different stages in their spiritual life, that can present a real problem.
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What has always been most interesting about acting to me personally is that it affords you the chance to shift gears, both in terms of the experiences you get to have through doing it, but also the different kinds of things you get to represent.
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I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw?
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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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Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively.
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I wish I were more musically gifted, more intuitive in playing instruments.
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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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Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
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A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.
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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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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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