Quotes from Eric Bana

It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.

I'll give you a list of a hundred ways that I'm more likely to be injured than belting around a race track with people who know what they're doing. It's not a place where I feel I'm in unnecessary danger.

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair.

If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character?

I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me.

I have a theory that I really want my kids to know - the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work.

I guess subconsciously that all the great people you work with have an influence on you.

The only thing that may make me different from other people is I have passionate interests outside of work.

It's always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work.

The longer you have something, the stronger the bond. That's true with people as well as things.

Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue.

I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.

I wasn't going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story.

I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it's just a big play.

Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.

I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, 'Bring back the spikes, Dad.'

When you're shooting a film, you really don't get to be a dad, and you don't really get to be a husband. You don't really exist at all. But I do drag my family with me on location whenever I can.