Quotes from Joel Edgerton

All I can say is working with Ridley Scott is a dream come true.

Getting the call from Ridley Scott made me think that sometimes you just need to go to work.

Some of us are better at owning the responsibility of our actions than others.

I'm a pacifist.

I'm the great-great-grandson of a sheep stealer.

I had a black belt in Shotokan as a kid.

Gavin O'Connor, I'd walk into a fire for that guy. He's a brilliant filmmaker and a passionate man.

I'm not saying I'm a family guy, but maybe that's what people see in me: some kind of paternal quality.

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was out of necessity in the beginning. Over time, I began to see that I could create the roles I wanted to play rather than just waiting around.

There's a certain relief to just being the guy who puts on the costume and walks onset and gets to prance or stomp around in a Ridley Scott or Baz Luhrmann movie.

My brother and I are best friends.

I've never seen a film get away completely unscathed like I have 'Animal Kingdom.' There's not a single bad review that I've read of it yet; all through Sundance, all it got was high praise.

You can't really be picky when no one is offering you anything.

I don't appreciate, really, talking to journalists when there's a sense of wanting to kick up dust to sell more papers or get more hits on their Internet site.

The little bit of buzz around 'Warrior' led to a lot of opportunities anyway, before the movie even came out.

To me, 'Warrior' was a real turning point - probably one of the greatest experiences I've ever had as an actor on set.

I always wonder why people cast me in anything.

I was raised Catholic, and I remember in all the pamphlets and pictures we'd look at, Jesus was basically blonde with blue eyes. He kind of looked like Jared Leto.

We are people in circumstances who make choices that we think are right at the time.

I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock on a personality, even just in life, and then they'll shock you by their behavior.

It feels good to be fit and strong.

When people are really great at what they do there is no aggression because they are comfortable in their own skin. They know themselves well enough that you don't have anything to prove.

I wasted too much time in my twenties. I worked, but I would do theater in the evening, and during the day I would surf and do irascible things. And then, for some reason, as I got closer to my thirties, I thought, 'Okay Joel, you've wasted enough time.'