256 Quotes by Edward Norton

I do subscribe to the maxim that generally comedy is like jazz. Either you get it or you don’t. You can’t learn it and you can’t be taught it. I don’t think that if you are not a funny person, you can fake it.

Most of the movies that I’ve made that I really felt good about and cared about made very little money anyway, so I’m not particularly worried about people downloading and sharing them.

I’m not a very methodologically pure actor. Almost every time that I start, I feel completely at sea. Always at the beginning I feel like a fraud, really, because I’m never sure how to get started.

Everyone keeps saying the western’s dead, but it’s not.

When you have a pipe salesman with a business called Macabee Pipes, I’d say you’ve got your tongue planted firmly in your cheek.

The thing I’m absolutely convinced of, no matter how crazy – technological the world is getting, is that people feel more connected through the good works. Entertainment, and the sort of soporific effect it has on people and their stress, is one thing.

No, I’m not a very methodologically pure actor.

You never make all things for all people and can’t always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me.

If I’m trying to put size on for a role, then I don’t do much running.