Joel Edgerton
Joel Edgerton
Joel Edgertonis an Australian actor and filmmaker...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth23 June 1974
CountryAustralia
fighter great mentally physical
What makes a really great fighter is a combination of ingredients: one is everything physical that you can do, and the other is what's mentally there for you. And I think that comes down to how big your heart is and what's driving you.
The only way for you to show what you can do is to actually do.
charge christmas department fell worked wrap
I worked for a big department store, and strangely, on my first day, they put me in charge of Christmas wrapping. I didn't know how to wrap a present and make it not look like it fell off a truck.
began bullying create movies necessity rather roles time waiting
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.
equivalent screaming shirt tearing
Actors want to act; actors want to emote. It's like the emotional equivalent of tearing your shirt off and screaming to the heavens: you want to express, and you want to be seen to be expressing.
Every now and then, I have a deep thought.
expressive people remorse
Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?
scolded unto
I grew up being taught, 'Do unto others as they would do unto you.' I would get scolded for not being polite.
bad good mix
Everybody's a mix of good and bad choices that they make.
It's weird: I don't see myself as a tough guy.
cell decade piercing project ring roll scare telephone thriller written
I often put any project I write in a different decade just to roll the thought around in my head. There's a thriller I've written that I think would be nice to set in the '70s or '80s, just to take cell phones away from the movie. There's nothing like the piercing ring of an old-school telephone to really scare an audience.
good james reminder tuxedo
Having rain on your tuxedo is a pretty good reminder that you're not James Bond.
glory minute takes
The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.