Emile Hirsch

I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river.

— Emile Hirsch

When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya!

— Emile Hirsch

I'm not staying away from any genre. I'm trying to get scripts that I like.

— Emile Hirsch

There's something just so kind of smooth about politicians.

— Emile Hirsch

Most actors are lucky to ever get a job, period. I never forget that, because I have so many actor friends in…

— Emile Hirsch

It was very, very challenging being on this thing called the gimbal. It would throw you around, give you whiplash, and they'd…

— Emile Hirsch

How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain?

— Emile Hirsch

I remember when I saw 'The Matrix' when I was 13, I saw it in the theaters, and I was so blown…

— Emile Hirsch

There's something about the good-hearted guy fighting the system. I just love that. That's how 'Speed' is. He's a really focused guy…

— Emile Hirsch

Believe it or not, I got into the charismatic, shady, sly heart of Sedgewick Bell by watching CNN and C-SPAN.

— Emile Hirsch

I'm sort of like a rat in a maze - I'm moving forward, and any choice I make at the time seems…

— Emile Hirsch

We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of like a really cool kind…

— Emile Hirsch

A lot of the things I find funniest about people are their shortcomings that they're oblivious to, but that they're constantly reminding…

— Emile Hirsch

I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.

— Emile Hirsch

Sometimes good days are not always fun, sometimes they are good because of how hard they were and gratifying for those reasons.

— Emile Hirsch

I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a green screen movie, it's like…

— Emile Hirsch

The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want…

— Emile Hirsch

When I got a lap dance, because I was 17, they had to put a massive pillow between me and the girl…

— Emile Hirsch

Brokeback Mountain' just blew me away. I'll always remember talking to Heath Ledger just after he finished that movie and he was…

— Emile Hirsch

I think I've always been half out of my shell and half in. Sometimes I can be extremely wild and sometimes I…

— Emile Hirsch

In Dogtown, skateboards are like bikes to the Chinese.

— Emile Hirsch

Shooting in 3D hasn't really affected the way I work as an actor that much. Maybe that's not a good thing. Maybe…

— Emile Hirsch

A lot of the stuff in 'Speed Racer' has never been done before, from it having a multi-tone, to it having a…

— Emile Hirsch

James Dean taught me not to speed, River Phoenix taught me not to DO speed, and Marlon Brando taught me to slow…

— Emile Hirsch

If you give an actor any wiggle room to whine in situations where they want to whine, you're gonna whine.

— Emile Hirsch