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You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

Aaron Eckhart

Chris [Nolan] comes at this with such a different take on Batman, so I didn’t feel that I had to be true to any other actor playing this role. Of course, I read the comic books. His relationships with Lt. Gordon and with Batman, with Gotham City, those really helped me the most.
AARON ECKHART

Batsman Book City Different Feel
Actors aren’t fighters. They don’t know how to throw a punch. So, there’s a lot of hitting in the face. I’d much rather fight with a stuntman than another actor. I don’t like fighting with other actors because somebody always ends up getting hurt.
AARON ECKHART

Actor Fighting Graphic Hit Hurt
If you go to YouTube and look up ‘grief’ you can find them and it’s just an unbelievable tool for an actor to be able to access, without being unethical. It’s like accessing the deepest, most painful parts of a person.
AARON ECKHART

Grief Look Tool Unbelieve YouTube
I’ve been working for many years and I think I’ve managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
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Best Manage People Thinking Work Year
But I guess I like playing flawed guys ’cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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Character Flawed Giving Guess Guy
I think that maybe that’s my weakness, in that I don’t know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.
AARON ECKHART

Passionate Thinking Try Trying Weakness
I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
AARON ECKHART

Code Important Symbolism Thinking
Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I’m not always happy with that.
AARON ECKHART

Always Happy Movie Rush
I have a dog and sometimes I’ll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I’d bawl like a baby.
AARON ECKHART

Baby Dog Friendship Kid Marvel Nose
The only morality in a cruel world is chance.
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Cruel Dark Morality Unbiased World
You have respect and reverence for your characters and the fact that you’re going to epitomize that person for the rest of their lives. They’re going to be judged based on your performance by millions of people. You have a certain responsibility.
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Character Judge People Performance Responsibility
There are different reasons to make movies.
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Different Movie Reason
I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that’s what I’m always looking for, a director that’s going to help me go places I’ve never been before.
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Actor Director Helping Look Love Perform
Yeah, but there’s nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.
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Grant Nobody Romance Yeah
I would like to direct.
AARON ECKHART

Direct Wish
I’m sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.
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Crime Espionage Fascinate Sort Whole

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