Edward Norton Quotes, Thoughts and images

Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

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

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

As we say in the sewer, if you're not prepared to go all the way, don't put your boots on in the first place.

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

It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.

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

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

Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.

Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige, my friend.

As we say in the sewer, time and tide wait for no man.

It must be good to be in Germany and France, because I have completely forgotten what it is like to be proud of your government.

I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.

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

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

You can't control everything that comes to you.

I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.

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.

You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.

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

People think because I went to Yale that that implies privilege, and it is a privilege in the sense that it's an incredible opportunity.