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Gene Hackman was a superstar in the '70s - with that face! Joel Edgerton

Face Gene Superstar Hackman

I'd never really imagined myself as an action star. Joel Edgerton

Myself Action Never Really Star Imagined

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

Month Bored Schedule Knew

Stunt work offers a diversity of roles and, while I'm used to anonymity, I really like showing off and performing in front of camera, though I know my limitations. Joel Edgerton

Work Diversity Though Performing Like Know Stunt Anonymity Limitations Camera Off Offers Roles Front While Really Used Showing

So many people wait around for funding, and if they're unsuccessful, they don't make the film; if you've got a good idea, that seems so pointless. There's always a way of doing it; you've just got to find it. Joel Edgerton

There's a stage where you're desperate to get a job, and you're waving your hands in a sea of nothingness, going, 'Please, please, please! I'm over here - give me a job!' Joel Edgerton

Me You Desperate Job Stage Nothingness Please Waving Give Give Me Over Get Hands Going Where Your Sea Here

I couldn't do 'Eleanor Rigby' because it was clashing with another project - something I was going to go do - something with Liv Ullmann. Joel Edgerton

Project Something Another Because Go Going

I worked for a big department store, and strangely, on my first day, they put me in charge of Christmas wrapping. I didn't know how to wrap a present and make it not look like it fell off a truck. Joel Edgerton

I don't call acting a real job, and writing is a hobby. Joel Edgerton

Writing Job Call Real Real Job Hobby Acting

Some of us are better at owning the responsibility of our actions than others. Joel Edgerton

Better Responsibility Others Our Some Than Owning Us Actions

I always kind of aim with the action stuff to make it feel like, as an audience member, you're experiencing what the people are experiencing. As soon as you go into slow-mo or repeated edits, shooting it like it's a stunt, it takes it out of that reality. The more real you make that stuff, the more tense it will be. Joel Edgerton

You Reality People Will Action Aim Member Out Kind More Takes Tense Feel Soon Stuff Like Stunt Make Edit Audience Always Audience Member Real Go Repeated Shooting Experiencing

Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it. Joel Edgerton

You Director Dog Sometimes Think Back Throw Head Like Stick Fetch Pat Being Want Them Actor Bring

I have this theory that alpha males are actually not alpha males. They're actually very scared - particularly scared of competition from a lot of men. Joel Edgerton

Competition Men Scared Alpha Particularly Males Lot Very Theory Actually

I really believe guilt finds its way out of a person. Joel Edgerton

Guilt Believe Way Out Finds Person Really

I'm pretty skeptical about Hollywood and its fascination with the sequel and the franchise. Joel Edgerton

Franchise Pretty About Skeptical Hollywood Sequel Fascination

I don't want to be too power-hungry. Joel Edgerton

Too Want

I don't appreciate, really, talking to journalists when there's a sense of wanting to kick up dust to sell more papers or get more hits on their Internet site. Joel Edgerton

Internet Dust Sense Kick Papers More Journalists Talking Sell Up Get Hits Site Wanting Really Appreciate

I always wonder why people cast me in anything. Joel Edgerton

Me People Cast Always Wonder Anything Why

I had a bit of a martial arts background from when I was a teenager: I did a bit of karate. Joel Edgerton

Teenager Background Bit Martial Martial Arts Had Did Arts Karate

I'm the great-great-grandson of a sheep stealer. Joel Edgerton

Sheep