Joel Edgerton

My whole journey and career has been really interesting, but the one element it never really had was any sense of great momentum.

One wrong move, and you destroy your career.

I don't call acting a real job, and writing is a hobby.

There's a stage where you're desperate to get a job, and you're waving your hands in a sea of nothingness, going, 'Please, please, please! I'm over here - give me a job!'

I remember my brother Nash had just directed me in 'The Square,' and I was sitting in Australia going: 'No one's called me about working for ages. I don't know if I'm ever going to get another job.'

I'm a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself.

I have this theory that alpha males are actually not alpha males. They're actually very scared - particularly scared of competition from a lot of men.

I always wonder why people cast me in anything.

If, at the end of the day, I can look back and see pictures of all the characters I've played, and there's a smorgasbord of weirdos and interesting, odd, different characters, I'd be so happy.

I was a good boy; I was never in trouble for anything.

Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up.

I don't have any kids of my own.