Quotes By Edward Norton

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.

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

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 tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.

I like music, but I need to get outside more.

I don't get much out of doing a red carpet.

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

Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.

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

If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.

Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively.

I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school.

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

The period western doesn't have a lot to say to most people today.

You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me.

I just love movies.

If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience.

My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.

Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.

I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.

I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through.

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.

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

The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about.

Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.

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

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

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

I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.