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Edward Norton Biography

Edward Harrison Norton (born August 18, 1969) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards for his work in the films Primal Fear (1996), American History X (1998) and Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014). He also starred in other roles, such as The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), Fight Club (1999), Red Dragon (2002), 25th Hour (2002), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), The Illusionist (2006), Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). He has also directed and co-written films, including his directorial debut, Keeping the Faith (2000). He has done uncredited work on several scripts, including The Score (2001), Frida (2002) and The Incredible Hulk (2008).

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If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look at it that way. I don't look at American History X as a failure, or Fight Club as a failure, or 25th Hour as a failure, or Larry Flynt as a failure, or any of the movies that I care about that I've made that were not immediately successful. I'll stand with those movies any day over 90 percent of the movies that came out at the same time that made a hundred million dollars

Choose, Fighting, History, Interesting, Stand, Successful

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

Acting, Free, Homework, Inspirational, Motivational, Work

For me there's always a line or two in a script, when you hit it you almost decide to do the whole movie off a line or two. You almost do it for the fun of getting to say a line or two like that. I don't have any specific plans, you know. I mean, if Seth Rogen calls with a great buddy pic, I'll be there.

Fun, Hit, Line, Mean, Say, Two

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.

Made, Movies, Read, Screenplays, Written

I've been friends with the guys in Radiohead for a lot of years, and I watch the way those guys work with incredible envy. Because whatever the slings and arrows of dealing with the record business, at the end of the day, they have total creative autonomy. They don't need a lot to do what they do, and Thom [Yorke] and Jonny [Greenwood] and the guys have their own joint in their hometown.

Arrows, Envy, Hometown, Thom, Way, Years

As we say in the sewer, time and tide wait for no man.

Man, Men, Tides, Time, Wait, Waiting

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.

Living, Pieces, Way, Wrestling

When I think of my background, if I was privileged on any level, it was in terms of the kind of exposure to experience and bohe-mian cultural influence that my parents and my uncles and my grandfather gave me. On both sides I come from an extremely eccentric, artsy, intellectually intense, activist family.

Cultural, Family, Gave, Parent, Thinking, Uncles

I just don't think most of us are aware how much of what we throw away ends up in the ocean, for starters. Plastic bags are among the worst. The US is actually falling behind the curve on that score. China and many other countries have already banned the production and use of thin plastic bags.

Aware, Country, Fall, Ocean, Plastic, Throw

I'm pretty busy in my life and I'm very aware of what it takes to direct a movie. It takes a lot out of you; it takes a lot out of the rest of your life, from other people in your life. I don't lie around hungering for that consumption very often.

Lying, People, Rest Of Your Life, Direct, Consumption

Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige, my friend.

Cousin, Littles, Popularity, Prestige, Slutty

There are things you do for the fun of doing them or to work or to hang with certain people. But the projects that I've invested myself in and cared about most deeply have absolutely been activated by a desire to chase something that I relate to, or that I see as having the potential to speak to someone else directly.

Desire, Fun, Invested, People, Work

I think we really feel like Crowdrise could be something that, 20 years from now, people take for granted because that's just how you do it, like if you're going to raise money for something, that's how you do it.

Like, Money, People, Raise, Thinking, Years

Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing.

Actors, Character, Happens, People, Playing, Thing

It's ginned up by the corporate plutocracy as a way of distracting the working-class people that it's screwing. We hamstring our own natural progressivism in this country, and that's really stupid.

Class, Corporate, Country, People, Stupid

I started, with three friends, this website called Crowdrise that's sort of the Facebook for personal philanthropy, a place where anybody can have a permanent microsite of their own to stage creative fundraising projects for the charities and causes that they care about. And we did it with serious intent but without any ambition.

Ambition, Care, Creative, Crowdrise, Fundraising, Place

When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want. Familiarity breeds contempt, people say. But I've found, for creative things, familiarity breeds peace of mind, because you realize you know someone better. You trust each other. You know not to take things a certain way, or a wrong way. You get to where you don't have to waste quite so much time with diplomacy. Things are a little more efficient.

Creative, Know, Mind, People, Person, Work

You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.

Because Of You, Brings, Ends, Involved, Know, Strange

With Edward Norton you'd never say, "This is the one we're going with whether you like it or not. " It has to be agreed upon.

Agreed, Edward, Like, Norton, Say, You Like It

Practiced poorly, tourism can be extremely negative.

Travel, Tourism, Negative, Practiced, Extremely

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