Quotes from Aaron Eckhart

Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.

I'd like to do a romantic comedy.

Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.

I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.

Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.

If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me.

But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.

I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

I would like to direct.

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.

If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.

I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.

You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.

Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.

The day you stop caring what other people think of you is the day your life begins.

A film has its own life and takes its own time.

When it gets down to it you just have to act.

The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

There are different reasons to make movies.

I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.