Quotes by Edward Norton

“Life, like poker, has an element of risk. It shouldnt be avoided. It should be faced.”

“I am Jacks smirking revenge.”

“I almost forgot what its like to be proud of my government.”

“Shes not just one of these kids whos very natural,”

“There was this one guy who used to come into this one club all the time, ... and he had these glasses and one of them had a bullet hole through it like it was shattered, and he never got it fixed in the months that I went into this place.”

“Keeping The Faith.”

“I ran into Brenda Blethyn on a plane going to London and I went, Oh, Im going to get to see you again, ... American History X.”

“I think its pretty unequivocal, this character does not get off the hook for his actions on any level.”

“In fact, the United States today keeps on making the same sort of mistakes,”

“We are thrilled to be collaborating with Edward on this labor-of-love. Theyre a very daring company and have a great knack for communicating with audiences about challenging films.”

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

Ive always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. Youre trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what thats about so you can represent it.

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.