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.
AARON ECKHARTI 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.
More Aaron Eckhart Quotes
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Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
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Through all the relationship stuff I’ve gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.
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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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I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.
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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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But then, even with sex, I’m more in the school of less is more in movies.
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I’m an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
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I like doing movies with kids in them, and you’re explaining things. They’re teaching you and you’re teaching them, and the audience can loop through that.
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I’m always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.
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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.
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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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You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
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A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody.
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Yeah, but there’s nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.
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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.
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