Joel Edgerton

“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 think I'd be too scared to direct my first movie and put myself in the center.”

“I just don't want to do crap movies, man, because I just love that I can get up and talk about them and talk to journalists about stuff that I'm really proud of.”

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

“I don't have any kids of my own.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Blue Tongue Films is a very important part of my life.”

“I always kind of aim with the action stuff to make it feel like, as an audience member, you're experiencing what the people are experiencing. As soon as you go into slow-mo or repeated edits, shooting it like it's a stunt, it takes it out of that reality. The more real you make that stuff, the more tense it will be.”

“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.”

“It's an incredibly liberating feeling to have a skirt on. In fact, I know you can buy skirts, and you can buy work kilts and all sorts of stuff.”

“I couldn't do 'Eleanor Rigby' because it was clashing with another project - something I was going to go do - something with Liv Ullmann.”

“It's easier to play aggression and malevolence onscreen, often, than to hit softer notes.”

“I'm a pacifist.”

“I have this theory that alpha males are actually not alpha males. They're actually very scared - particularly scared of competition from a lot of men.”

“I had a black belt in Shotokan as a kid.”

“People love boxing, but you've gotta wait two or three years for your favorite boxer to have a fight.”

“I never imagined myself in a movie with magic.”

“I came out of high school, where my heroes were, like, Michael Jordan and a lot of local rugby players - and on the movie front, it was Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.”