I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and… — Edward Norton Kids Copy Share Image
Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for… — Edward Norton Conservation Copy Share Image
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… — Edward Norton Class Copy Share Image
Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit. — Edward Norton Business Copy Share Image
I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of… — Edward Norton Care Copy Share Image
When I was very small, I had that first-time-you-see-a-play experience, which immediately made me want to act, because it seemed like this… — Edward Norton Compulsion Copy Share Image
You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label. There's like, 18 different independent film-financing… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
The "environmental movement" is becoming an economic movement, is joining the social justice movement, is becoming a sustainability movement. It's leaving behind… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
But work that's got real substance does make people feel, "There's someone else out there who relates to my experience, or who… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
There are things you do for the fun of doing them or to work or to hang with certain people. But the… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled.… — Edward Norton Academy Copy Share Image
You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
When the tides of life turn against you And the current upsets your boat, Don't waste those tears on what might have… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
People think because I went to Yale that that implies privilege, and it is a privilege in the sense that it's an… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was… — Edward Norton Feelings Copy Share Image
Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think… — Edward Norton Bad guy Copy Share Image
There are tens of thousands of charities and hundreds of thousands, getting towards millions, of people now using it. And when I… — Edward Norton Blown away Copy Share Image
My greatest hope is that we transcend the most fearful thing, which is that we are rapidly degrading the ecological systems on… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
People say you can't make movies about your politics or the environment. And, generally speaking, I completely divide those sides of my… — Edward Norton Brain Copy Share Image
When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy… — Edward Norton Conflict Copy Share Image
When you have a pipe salesman with a business called Macabee Pipes, I'd say you've got your tongue planted firmly in your… — Edward Norton Business Copy Share Image
Most of the films that I've ever really responded to are ones that I feel were really involved in their times. — Edward Norton Cinema Copy Share Image
I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying… — Edward Norton Acting Copy Share Image
Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed… — Edward Norton Business Copy Share Image
Most of us still believe in the intrinsic value of nature, but I think the first century of the environmental/conservation movement demonstrated… — Edward Norton Behavior Copy Share Image
I've been friends with the guys in Radiohead for a lot of years, and I watch the way those guys work with… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I think there is a serious corruption in the idea sold through advertising that you can attain spiritual peace through lifestyle and… — Edward Norton Acquiring things Copy Share Image
When I was about 16 or 17, I had a teacher who took a group of us to the National Theater in… — Edward Norton Acting Copy Share Image
See, I don't get the sense that you need to direct at all. Sometimes I get the opposite sensation from you, that… — Edward Norton Brain Copy Share Image
On the downside, to paraphrase Thom Yorke talking about the music business, we're still having to deal with the stench of the… — Edward Norton America Copy Share Image
To me, Fight Club was a comedy. When [David] Fincher sent me the book and I read it, the first thing I… — Edward Norton Actors Copy Share Image
What we set out to do with this movie [Leaves of Grass] was to create something that was funny and serious and… — Edward Norton Ambition Copy Share Image
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![“To me, Fight Club was a comedy. When [David] Fincher sent me the book and I read it, the first thing I asked him was, "This is a comedy, right?" he said, "Yeah, that's the whole point," and I said, "Okay, I'm in." I certainly wasn't imagining myself as a dramatic actor when I was running around in…” quote by Edward Norton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ec/edward-norton-2203_actors_to-me-fight-club-was-a-comedy-when-david_2837192.jpg)
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