Edward Norton Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

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

  Edward Norton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Acting

• 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 certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.

  Edward Norton

  Confused, Exercise, Reality

  "Q&A: Edward Norton comes to grips with De Niro and The Boss". Interview with Peter Howell, www.thestar.com. September 9, 2010.

• I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.

  Edward Norton

  Keys, Doors, Secret

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• What has always been most interesting about acting to me personally is that it affords you the chance to shift gears, both in terms of the experiences you get to have through doing it, but also the different kinds of things you get to represent.

  Edward Norton

  Interesting, Acting, Different

  Interview with Nora Ephron, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 2000.

• There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.

  Edward Norton

  Character, Acting, Actors

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• When I was about 16 or 17, I had a teacher who took a group of us to the National Theater in Washington, D.C., and I saw Ian McKellen do his one-man show - I think it was called Acting Shakespeare - and it completely bombed me; it put the zap on my brain in a big way.

  Edward Norton

  Teacher, Men, Thinking

  "It's Edward Norton Day!". Interview with Ingrid Sischy, Interview Magazine, www.interview.de. May, 2006.

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