Aaron Eckhart Quotations

Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.

If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.

I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.

I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.

I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.

It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.

It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.

A film has its own life and takes its own time.

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.

Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.

But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.

I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.

Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.

You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that.

But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.

I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.

The problem with making larger movies, five or six months, is that whose got the energy to keep themselves in that place for so long?

I owned a 1972 Plymouth Valiant that we bought for $125. It was infested with cockroaches and geckos - it was its own little ecosystem.

I'd like to do a romantic comedy.

I would like to direct.

I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.

I'd like to do more family dramas.

You can go left, you can go right, I don't give a damn. Just make a decision.

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me.

I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.

We always feel threatened by things we don't know. But, there are definitely some weird things going on.

I have done scenes as Harvey Two-Face. It's interesting. I won't tell you exactly what we're going for, but I think that I can say that it will use all of today's technology to create this character. He's going to be interesting, and I think that's what makes this character important in the movie-you get to see him as he was before, as in the comic books. Harvey is a very good guy in the comic books. He's judicious. He cares. He's passionate about what he loves and then he turns into this character. So you will see that in this film.

Chris [Nolan] comes at this with such a different take on Batman, so I didn't feel that I had to be true to any other actor playing this role. Of course, I read the comic books. His relationships with Lt. Gordon and with Batman, with Gotham City, those really helped me the most.

I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.

I wanted to do a war movie, a western and an alien movie. In reality, there are a lot of ugly things happening in the world.

I've not made a career of being physical in my movies, but I love sports. I'm a very physical guy.

I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.

Filmmaking is a difficult process. There are the logistics of making a film. You have to do your part, and then change the entire thing around to do someone else's part. A lot of the magic is lost, in between that, and you have to figure out how to get it back.

There are different reasons to make movies.

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

The only morality in a cruel world is chance.

The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

I like doing movies with kids in them, and you're explaining things. They're teaching you and you're teaching them, and the audience can loop through that.

But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that.

If you go to YouTube and look up 'grief' you can find them and it's just an unbelievable tool for an actor to be able to access, without being unethical. It's like accessing the deepest, most painful parts of a person.

A GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard.

Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.

The day you stop caring what other people think of you is the day your life begins.

I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.

Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.

A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody.

Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.

I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.

Actors aren't fighters. They don't know how to throw a punch. So, there's a lot of hitting in the face. I'd much rather fight with a stuntman than another actor. I don't like fighting with other actors because somebody always ends up getting hurt.

I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby.

He came prepared to play. He fulfilled the author's intention. It's his movie. He's the man in it.

I think people could come out of this movie thinking, although all of these are very serious subjects, (political) spin is very serious because the truth is more important than the spin. But sometimes spin becomes the truth, or that's the perception.

I think Jason's going to have a huge career,

When it gets down to it you just have to act.

It's mostly done with smiles and being very enthusiastic. No matter what you're saying, if you're doing it in a likable enough way, they'll forgive you.

The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

For Nick, the game, basically, is convincing people. It's getting people to look at things your way. That's the big game in life, and that's what he's teaching his son. That's what he and his friends talk about when they get together. He's not defending cigarettes so much as he's defending his right to defend cigarettes.

the highest regard you can receive. That photo can describe an entire life, just an honor, as well as a fun moment.

All these people are so firm on their positions. That's where the humor in the movie comes from, ... It's like the debate team. Nothing is rooted, everything is malleable. As soon as you start to hate what Nick Naylor is saying, then you have a senator saying the same thing. Everybody is complicit; whatever their cause is, they all have unethical thoughts. It just shows that we're all just out there trying to ply our trade.