Emory Cohen

After I did 'Brooklyn,' I did about five or six violent films in one way or another, and not always with me…

— Emory Cohen

I'm zero to a hundred in almost every facet of my life.

— Emory Cohen

My first two or three films, all I was trying to do was look cool. That's all I knew acting was.

— Emory Cohen

When it comes to a love story, you're like, 'I've been in love before.' So it's closer to you than the other…

— Emory Cohen

I'm just trying to be Emory Cohen.

— Emory Cohen

I come from an intense family - like, we're just intense people. Not bad people or anything, we are just very intense,…

— Emory Cohen

I told my father I wanted to act, and he stared renting all these classic films for me to watch.

— Emory Cohen

I'm glad I chose more vulnerable work about what is love and what is freedom and those kinds of things. But there's…

— Emory Cohen

I'm a fourth-generation New Yorker. My family has been in New York for many, many years.

— Emory Cohen

I was 16 when I linked up with my manager - first person I ever auditioned for - and I've been in…

— Emory Cohen

That's what separates actors - I'll take any risk for a performance.

— Emory Cohen

I love a good loser.

— Emory Cohen

I did 'Pines,' and everybody wanted me to be the bad boy. Then I did Tony in 'Brooklyn,' and everybody wanted me…

— Emory Cohen

My family has artists, but they are all working artists. They are not movie stars. They don't get paid. I really respect…

— Emory Cohen

I want to do a rom-com. For me, where I come from, it would be such a stretch.

— Emory Cohen

Everyone's inspired by Brando. When I started acting, my dad showed me 'On the Waterfront,' and I thought, 'That's the coolest guy…

— Emory Cohen

I'm kind of an all-or-nothing kind of guy.

— Emory Cohen

'House of a Thousand Corpses' by Rob Zombie - I love that movie. I really do.

— Emory Cohen

I'm shying away from getting lost in really bad movies for really good money.

— Emory Cohen

When I'm playing a bad guy, a lot of it is imagined: things I thought I wanted to do, but I never…

— Emory Cohen

I'll play a happy character, but most characters are driven by a pain or a fear. They are driven by something deep…

— Emory Cohen

There are shows that have been prematurely canceled, but I don't know if 'Smash' was one of them.

— Emory Cohen

The hardest thing is for me to let the work go and let myself just live. Every actor is different; they each…

— Emory Cohen

When I was a kid, I saw 'Peter Pan,' and I loved Captain Hook and the Lost Boys because they were the…

— Emory Cohen

The old joke in my family is that the last person who isn't from New York was coming from Russia.

— Emory Cohen