Edward Norton
Actor
1969-08-18
Edward Norton is an American actor and filmmaker known for Primal Fear, American History X, and Fight Club. He has received multiple Academy Award nominations for acting.
Books by Edward Norton
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Prejudice, war, and the Constitution
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Quotes by Edward Norton
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I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.
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I just like working with smart people.
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I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.
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I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.
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You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.
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If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.
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Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing.
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I think we really feel like Crowdrise could be something that, 20 years from now, people take for granted because that's just how you do it, like if you're going to raise money for something, that's how you do it.
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I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.
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Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.
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You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me.
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Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.
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I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw?
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People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.
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I'm a New Yorker, you know.
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