256 Quotes by Edward Norton

If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I’m gonna have a heart attack.

People say you can’t make movies about your politics or the environment. And, generally speaking, I completely divide those sides of my brain.

Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it’s guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family.

In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It’s suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.

I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I’m looking at an individual piece.

The deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away. It’s more challenging to me, but it’s also just interesting. Those are the things I like to watch. I like to watch the evolutions of something.

I’ve observed over and over that people seem to get a much deeper sense of fulfillment out of something they’ve done as an act of service than out of the things they do for themselves.

I don’t flatter myself – I’m not a scientist, I’m not a conservation expert.

At this point in my life I’m not bent on proving anything, really.