#act

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it. ↗

— Edward Norton

#acting #always #certain #confused #emotional

I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass. ↗

— Edward Norton

#always #any #door #enjoy #escape

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard. ↗

— Edward Norton

#because #characters #contradictory #easily #fun

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away. ↗

— Edward Norton

#character #deeper #go #i #layers

I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up. ↗

— Edward Norton

#character #ends #i #interesting #relate

I think a lot of people in their average day actually imagine two sides of a conversation at one point or another. I think that the mental trick of holding two sides of a conversation in your head is actually something that we all do. ↗

— Edward Norton

#another #average #conversation #day #head

I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles. ↗

— Edward Norton

#i #i think #inner #lot #people

I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions. ↗

— Edward Norton

#always #angry #because #come #contradictions

Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles. ↗

— Edward Norton

#bad guys #characters #drawn #feel #guys

You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with. ↗

— Edward Norton

#because #brings #contact #end #getting