256 Quotes by Edward Norton

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.

It’s dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.

I almost forgot what it’s like to be proud of my government.

When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don’t want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

I’m a Tulsa Jew and I have a religious upbringing.

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It’s fun, and it’s fun because it’s hard.

It’s better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

But work that’s got real substance does make people feel, “There’s someone else out there who relates to my experience, or who just helped me understand my own experience a little bit better.” And I think that’s still got enormous value.

People think because I went to Yale that that implies privilege, and it is a privilege in the sense that it’s an incredible opportunity.