Aaron Edward Eckhart (born March 12, 1968) is an American actor.
Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.
The F. B. I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
I'd like to do a romantic comedy.
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.
A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody.
The day you stop caring what other people think of you is the day your life begins.
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.
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.
But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 911 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
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.
If you go to YouTube and look up 'grief' you can find them and it's just an unbelievable tool for an actor to be able to access, without being unethical. It's like accessing the deepest, most painful parts of a person.
I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.
I would like to direct.
I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.
I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
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.