30 Quotes by Emory Cohen

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

I am constantly interested in people who society calls 'bad' because I don't like to just buy into something that everybody's going to say. I want to investigate that for myself. With a character, you get to fully investigate that emotionally and understand the parts of them that are in pain and scared and are good. That's human.

If I wanted to play it safe, I'd get a normal job with a secure paycheck.

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

I'm glad I chose more vulnerable work about what is love and what is freedom and those kinds of things. But there's something innate in me where I always come back to characters with an edge.

I'm just trying to be Emory Cohen.

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

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

I did 'Pines,' and everybody wanted me to be the bad boy. Then I did Tony in 'Brooklyn,' and everybody wanted me to be the sweet kid. So I just want to keep everybody on their toes. Basically, that was the thought process.