Quotes by Emile Hirsch

About Emile Hirsch:

Emile Davenport Hirsch is an American film actor, whose works include Into the Wild, Lone Survivor, Milk, Prince Avalanche, The Motel Life, Speed Racer and the A&E networks simulcast miniseries Bonnie & Clyde. He began performing in the late 1990s, and became known as a film actor after roles in Lords of Dogtown, The Emperor's Club, The Girl Next Door, Alpha Dog and the Sean Penn-directed film Into the Wild.
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A lot of the stuff in 'Speed Racer' has never been done before, from it having a multi-tone, to it having a retro-cool family movie, to having the photo-realism with the CG-backgrounds and infinite focus the way they worked with these digital cameras...

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Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.

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We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of like a really cool kind of re-imagining.

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On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.

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I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.

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Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

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Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good.

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The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.

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There's something about the good-hearted guy fighting the system. I just love that. That's how 'Speed' is. He's a really focused guy with a heart of gold and the corporations are trying to crush him and use him for his skills to make them more money.

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When I got a lap dance, because I was 17, they had to put a massive pillow between me and the girl when she was grinding me. It was weird, yet pleasurable.

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Believe it or not, I got into the charismatic, shady, sly heart of Sedgewick Bell by watching CNN and C-SPAN.

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I'm not staying away from any genre. I'm trying to get scripts that I like.

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I'm a very, very conservative driver.

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It was very, very challenging being on this thing called the gimbal. It would throw you around, give you whiplash, and they'd tie you down.

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I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a green screen movie, it's like doing independent New York theater because you don't have any backgrounds or props. So it's kind of like making the lowest budgeted fil...

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If you give an actor any wiggle room to whine in situations where they want to whine, you're gonna whine.

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I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move,...

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I've definitely had ideas and plans that sometimes exceed my means and capabilities.

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How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain?

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I don't really like the slogan 'It boy.'

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Author Bio

  • NameEmile Hirsch
  • Descriptionactor
  • BornMarch 13, 1985
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionTelevision Actor; Film Actor; Actor