Edward NortonAll 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. 371Humanity
Edward NortonLife, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.351Life
Edward NortonNo, I'm not a very methodologically pure actor. ✨ Interview with Richard Jobson, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2007.341Philosophy
Edward NortonPeople 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. 331HumanityThoughtTime
Edward NortonMy generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s. ✨ 'Fight Club': It 'Just sort of clicked' by Michael Sragow, www.cnn.com. October 19, 1999.353Life
Edward NortonI have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines. ✨ Edward Norton - not appearing in a cinema near you by N… ▶331HopeTime
Edward NortonI don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.321Thought
Edward NortonIf I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.378Love
Edward NortonI read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.334Reading
Edward NortonI almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.335Politics
Edward NortonYou can't control everything that comes to you.324Philosophy
Edward NortonPeople are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.313Humanity
Edward NortonI'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… ▶302ThoughtTimeTruth
Edward NortonDuality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.303Reading
Edward NortonUnpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation.325Politics
Edward NortonI don't get much out of doing a red carpet.327Truth
Edward NortonIt's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.3510Humanity
Edward NortonI'm a New Yorker, you know.317Humanity
Edward NortonI like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away. ✨ Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. January 3, 2007.317Hope
Edward NortonThe more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.329Humanity
Edward NortonI 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 J… ▶242Love
Edward NortonThe more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.319Hope
Edward NortonYou always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.243Life
Edward NortonAt this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.298Life
Edward NortonFame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.222Hope
Edward NortonEveryone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.3010Death
Edward NortonIn 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. ✨ Q&A: Edward Norton comes … ▶288DeathThought
Edward NortonI don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.255Love
Edward NortonInstead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.277Philosophy
Edward NortonWhen you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another perso… ▶245ThoughtTime
