#he

I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character. ↗

— Joel Edgerton

#boyhood #character #digging #fantasies #getting

That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about. ↗

— Joel Edgerton

#actor #being #great #know #learn

To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments. ↗

— Joel Edgerton

#ball #bear #film #go #here

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#brains #definitely #effort #many #people

It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group. ↗

— Charles Edison

#any #elect #elected #governor #group

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#always #america #be brave #before #brave

To have a great idea, have a lot of them. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#great idea #idea #lot #them

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#ahead #comes #decided #fully #getting

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#blunders #forward #i #notice #perhaps

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity. ↗