Edward Furlong Quotations

It hasn't been a totally smooth road, but in the whole span of things I feel like a very lucky person.

I have a little brother. He's actually living at my house right now. He's going to be 18.

I never thought I'd reach 21. I used to feel that was old, but growing old doesn't scare me anymore. I just want to have done something super special and have had someone to do it with.

I don't think anyone has a normal family.

I look up to actors. I look up to Robert DeNiro, I look up to Johnny Depp, I look up to Al Pacino, I look up to run-of-the-mill really good actors. I love watching movies, and I love watching other actors and learning from them.

If I was in a room with a bunch of skinheads talking about racism, then I would be disturbed, but after we finished a take, we were normal people again.

I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family.

By the time I'm old, I'm sure I'll have lived a full enough life. I think we're mortal for a reason. Life gets tiring, man!

Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie.

I am very, very competitive and ambitious. I would definitely fight hard for a role I believed in.

I had a hard time going back to school after T2. I really didn't want to go to private school.

The first willing concert I went to was Aerosmith when I was like 14.

I've always wanted to do a movie that takes place in the 70's and was about rock and roll and getting high, like Dazed and Confused or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

But I'm not like sad, depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression.

A lot of people my age are so hyper. I like hyper people.

But i think it would drive me more crazy to just go do a movie that I didn't believe in, you know?

I enjoy playing people that are totally different than me.

I was scared I was going to have some weird shape to my head and I was pleased that I didn't.

I'm so embarrassed by that album. I don't even own it myself.

It's really hard to find good movies, and that's pretty much what I try to find, good movies.

Jim Cameron used to call me 'Special Ed.'

Little Odessa. Of all my movies, it's the one that I still really love when I watch it and I'm pretty happy with what I didn in that.

Who wants to go to school and be asked for, like, 20 autographs?

I know a lot of people my age are still trying to figure out what to do, and I consider myself lucky that I can make a living doing something that I truly enjoy.

I've always liked women. But I don't want somebody who likes me because I'm famous. I like girls who are intelligent and who are kind of quiet like me.

Basically, man, I just love myself.

Im not this tortured soul or anything.

People aren't born racist.

When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, Oh yeah, I'll get girls and be famous.

We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean.

You just can't go around killing people!

I had a hard time going back to school after T2. I really didnt want to go to private school.

It is in your nature to destroy yourselves.

Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it.

She called me like a week later and said it was for T2. I loved The Terminator so it was pretty much like a dream come true.

I'm a real lazy, slow kind of person.

I enjoy playing people that are totally different than me. It's a challenge to get inside these people's heads and wonder why they would have these beliefs.

I was like, man, I love this. This is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

KISS is the most brilliant band ever to be alive, and Gene Simmons is the coolest guy that ever lived.

Some people are kind of themselves, and some people are straight-up actors that can meld into a lot of different parts.

Maybe part of it is that I'm a little bit crazy, and another thing is, my mannerisms have always been... I'm not like a hyper person.

My biggest fear was the I'd be a one-time guy.

But one out of ten is the really good one, something that I really want to fight for. And I usually have to fight for it.

There's the art house movies and the action movies and the chick films. I think the same thing's happening with actors.

Around 15, 16, I started not really wanting to be famous. I just loved acting, loved trying to make emotions clear to people.

I'm not really ashamed of who I am, but publicity for me is not really about letting people know who Eddie is inside.

I like the piano a lot better 'cause it seemed like I got a lot more instant music out of the piano than I did with the guitar.

I pretty much grew up in Pasadena just like any other kid who grows up in Pasadena.

Being a kid in this business, you naturally grow up a lot quicker, and it could drive someone crazy if they're not careful.

But we all kind of knew we were doing a really good movie while we were filming it.

I'd love to do a real long speech again, eleven minutes dedicated to ME!