Joel Edgerton

I never sing out loud because I'm afraid people will go, 'Shut up!'

If I knew my schedule a month ahead, I'd be so bored.

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

There's a certain relief to just being the guy who puts on the costume and walks onset and gets to prance or stomp around in a Ridley Scott or Baz Luhrmann movie.

Actors are excused from a lot of things, and we get away with a lot... I find it equally interesting and exciting as it is disgusting and bizarre.

Some people are really good at playing the movie star - they are really good at cultivating that mystique - but I'm not really into that.

I think I'd be too scared to direct my first movie and put myself in the center.

I thought I'd be married and a father by 35.

Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting.

That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about.

You have to stick to what you love and purse that at all costs. Don't choose money first; it won't make you happy.

You can road-test relationships.