Emory Cohen

“I'm just trying to be Emory Cohen.”

“I'm shying away from getting lost in really bad movies for really good money.”

“I did 'Pines,' and everybody wanted me to be the bad boy. Then I did Tony in 'Brooklyn,' and everybody wanted me to be the sweet kid. So I just want to keep everybody on their toes. Basically, that was the thought process.”

“When I was a kid, I saw 'Peter Pan,' and I loved Captain Hook and the Lost Boys because they were the 'bad boys.'”

“After I did 'Brooklyn,' I did about five or six violent films in one way or another, and not always with me being the bad guy, but something violent about it to keep the street cred up, really.”

“I'm a fourth-generation New Yorker. My family has been in New York for many, many years.”

“The hardest thing is for me to let the work go and let myself just live. Every actor is different; they each have their own strengths and weaknesses; trust and ease are mine.”

“I'm kind of an all-or-nothing kind of guy.”

“I come from an intense family - like, we're just intense people. Not bad people or anything, we are just very intense, and I have just always felt like people who weren't like that were just a kind of hiding it, like when I was really young in high school.”

“I told my father I wanted to act, and he stared renting all these classic films for me to watch.”