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Aaron Eckhart
American
Actor
About the author
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.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#Years
#Past
#Men
#Women
#Sex
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.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#People
#Successful
#Interest
If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#Talking
#Tenderness
#Masculinity
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.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#Now
#Actors
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.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#Want
#Man
#Woman
Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#Right
#Now
#Hope
#People
#Goodness
#Giving
Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#Right
#Movies
Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#Today
#Movies
#Actors
There are different reasons to make movies.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#Movies
I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#Men
#Vice
#Women
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.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#Career
#Thought
#Job
When it gets down to it you just have to act.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#Act
Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#Romance
Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#Film
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.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#Film
#Control
#Music
#Actor
I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#Crime
The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#Walking
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.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#Right
#Now
#Violence
#Content
Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#Comedy
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.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#Love
#Help
#Actors
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.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#World
#Information
#Research
#Post
I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#Day
#Actor
I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#Writer
I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#Right
#Now
#America
I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#Actor
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.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#Weakness
I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
I would like to direct.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
I'd like to do a romantic comedy.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#Comedy
#Romantic
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.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#God
#Nothing
#Years
#Job
I'd like to do more family dramas.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#Family
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.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#People
#Work
#Years
#Business
A film has its own life and takes its own time.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#Time
#Life
#Film
But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
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.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#Will
#Nothing
#Osama bin laden
#Opinion
But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
Aaron Eckhart,
American
Actor
#Movies
#School
#Sex