Quotes from Joel Edgerton

Having rain on your tuxedo is a pretty good reminder that you're not James Bond.

If I'm going to work for twelve hours a day, I want twelve hours of awesomeness!

The recipe for any character is always very interesting, as far as what doses of certain qualities you want.

Everybody's a mix of good and bad choices that they make.

My whole journey and career has been really interesting, but the one element it never really had was any sense of great momentum.

If I knew my schedule a month ahead, I'd be so bored.

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.

The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.

I remember my brother Nash had just directed me in 'The Square,' and I was sitting in Australia going: 'No one's called me about working for ages. I don't know if I'm ever going to get another job.'

I think the life of an actor is glamorous to other people, but then the reality sets in: you don't know where you will be next year or how long you'll be there for.

Unfortunately, the Egyptians weren't the greatest artists in the world.

The Australians are actually the worst of the criminals from the United Kingdom, but not worst as in toughest. They're the ones who did stupid little things and got caught for it. Bad criminals.

Really, no-one is bad except for serial killers and dictators.

Every now and then, I have a deep thought.

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.

I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.

Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.

One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.

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.

I have always stuck to my guns about what I want from the work and what interests me. I've never been seduced down the evil path. The path of taking the money.

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

I remember being bullied at school, and I remember being cruel to other kids.

I spent a lot of time outdoors as a kid.

Sometimes I just wonder if I'm being led by variety. If one film leads me down one path, sometimes I just want to turn around and head the opposite way for the next project. I hope that's not the case, but sometimes I suspect that.