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 ECKHARTThe F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It’s all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
More Aaron Eckhart Quotes
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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.
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Right now, I have to admit, that I’m more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
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But then, even with sex, I’m more in the school of less is more in movies.
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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.
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Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I’m not always happy with that.
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I’m an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
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Yeah, I’d like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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Well, I’ve thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don’t know what I’d do.
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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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I’ve not made a career of being physical in my movies, but I love sports. I’m a very physical guy.
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We always feel threatened by things we don’t know. But, there are definitely some weird things going on.
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There are different reasons to make movies.
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I wanted to do a war movie, a western and an alien movie. In reality, there are a lot of ugly things happening in the world.
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If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I’m allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys ’cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that.
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I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
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A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody.
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Funerals are important rituals. They don’t just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.
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It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I’ve worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I’ve worked with… Sir Ben Kingsley.
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Yeah, but there’s nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I’m a great writer.
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I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.
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I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.
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I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn’t get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.
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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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