174 Quotes by Eric Bana

If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn’t you also be able to inhabit a character?

When you’re shooting a film, you really don’t get to be a dad, and you don’t really get to be a husband. You don’t really exist at all. But I do drag my family with me on location whenever I can.

I don’t like to come at my character from some really technical place.

By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don’t really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way.

I guess on a base level that’s one of the first parental instincts that you have with children in Australia is learn to swim. Not only learn to swim but learn to swim strong.

The most serious film can be the most fun. The one that’s supposed to be fun can be the most serious.

I don’t consciously seek out Australian projects. I put them on the same table as all the other scripts and I wouldn’t ever do a film just because it’s been shot at home.

It’s always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.

I tend not to read the size of the production into a script when I’m reading it. It’s just something you respond to or not and I do think it’s very dangerous to say it’s time now to do this or it’s time now to do that.