Actors are excused from a lot of things, and we get away with a lot… I find it equally interesting and exciting as it is disgusting and bizarre. – Joel Edgerton
It’s tricky. I’ve never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I’ve never really had a profile. So in a way I have this ‘nothing to lose’ attitude. – Joel Edgerton
To me, Hollywood seems a little bipolar. Things happen; things don’t happen. Someone’s in a movie; someone’s not in a movie. I’ve learned not to build my expectations. – Joel Edgerton
The little bit of buzz around ‘Warrior’ led to a lot of opportunities anyway, before the movie even came out. – Joel Edgerton
Some people are really good at playing the movie star – they are really good at cultivating that mystique – but I’m not really into that. – Joel Edgerton
I’m on the list that I thought I’d never be on. I’m not sitting here thinking, ‘God, I might get this part’ or ‘is it too late for me to play Hamlet?’ It’s really about: who do I get to work with? There’s so many people on that list. – Joel Edgerton
So many people wait around for funding, and if they’re unsuccessful, they don’t make the film; if you’ve got a good idea, that seems so pointless. There’s always a way of doing it; you’ve just got to find it. – Joel Edgerton
I have an issue with the commercial aspect of moviemaking: I don’t see why a movie can’t make a lot of money and also be good. – Joel Edgerton
There’s a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don’t get in touch with. – Joel Edgerton
I’ve signed four autographs for Sam Worthington in L.A., and I haven’t told any of the people that I’m not him. – Joel Edgerton
I often put any project I write in a different decade just to roll the thought around in my head. There’s a thriller I’ve written that I think would be nice to set in the ’70s or ’80s, just to take cell phones away from the movie. There’s nothing like the piercing ring of an old-school telephone to really scare an audience. – Joel Edgerton
There’s never been a mathematical equation that says a good experience making a movie equates to a good movie, or a bad experience on a set is going to lead to a bad movie. – Joel Edgerton
I reckon I would be able compare anything to anything else if you gave me enough time. – Joel Edgerton
I’m a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself. – Joel Edgerton
You’ve got to be really careful that you’re not falling into the Hollywood trap, you know? – Joel Edgerton
I oftentimes find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It’s almost out of necessity. – Joel Edgerton
What an audience decides about where certain characters come from is really up to them. – Joel Edgerton
I tend to take on a lot of things. And then they all just seem to happen at once. Or maybe I’m not good at saying ‘No’. But the juggling’s fun. – Joel Edgerton
Fighting in the ring or cage is very much different from fighting in the street. Fighting in the street is very much fueled by anger, pride, and male dominance and ego. – Joel Edgerton
‘Animal Kingdom’ feels like a suburban Melbourne version of ‘The Godfather ‘to me. It’s epic and Shakespearean in its story, and yet you still feel like you can reach out and touch it. – Joel Edgerton
