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70 quotes by Edward Norton

Edward Harrison Norton (born August 18, 1969) is an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer and activist. Norton has been nominated for three Academy Awards for his work in the films, Primal Fear, American History X and Birdman. He also starred in other roles, such as Everyone Says I Love You (1996), The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), Fight Club (1999), Red Dragon (2002), 25th Hour (2002), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), The Illusionist...
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It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

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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... →

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Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

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I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling.... →

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

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Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

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

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

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Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.

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The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

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Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest... →

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

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Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever... →

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