Edward Norton Quotes

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.
Edward Norton

Social, Meaningful, Breakfast

I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.
Edward Norton

Place, Lovely, Anybody

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.
Edward Norton

Sympathy, Emotional, Reality

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
Edward Norton

Life, Risk, Poker

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.
Edward Norton

Best, Questions, Films

You can't control everything that comes to you.
Edward Norton

Everything, Control

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.
Edward Norton

Character, Person, Playing

Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.
Edward Norton

Ways, Alike, Twins

At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.
Edward Norton

Life, Point, Proving

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.
Edward Norton

Enjoy, Free, Acting

If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience.
Edward Norton

Experience, Person, Made

In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.
Edward Norton

Try, Story, Drama

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.
Edward Norton

Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.
Edward Norton

Care, Parents, Idea

No, I'm not a very methodologically pure actor.
Edward Norton

People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.
Edward Norton

Human, Interest, Degree

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.
Edward Norton

Experience, Why, Novelty

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.
Edward Norton

Fun, Hard, Characters

Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family.
Edward Norton

Family, School, Fun

Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.
Edward Norton

Moving, Needs, Toward

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.
Edward Norton

Story, Complexity, Duality

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.
Edward Norton

Saying, Everyone, Dead

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.
Edward Norton

Against, Fame, Guard

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.
Edward Norton

Government, Proud, Almost

I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through.
Edward Norton

Through, Find, Living

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: August 18, 1969

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