Eric Bana Quotes

• I love being at home, being with friends and family. I’m of European stock, brought up in Australia. I’m a passionate guy. I just love life.

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  Topics in Family, Life

  Tags in Friends

• When I shoot I’ll take my family with me – one movie a year and then the rest of the time at home.

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  Topics in Family, Uncategorized

• There wasn’t a moment where I got into cars. It wasn’t a conscience decision or something that came later, it was there since I was born. I just love it.

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  Topics in Decisions

  Tags in Conscience, Moment

• Each time you go to the same track you know whether you’re improving or whether you’re not… it’s not open to interpretation. It’s measurable – unlike acting.

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  Tags in Improving, Measurable, Acting

• I guess subconsciously that all the great people you work with have an influence on you.

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  Tags in Great, People

• I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There’s a period of mourning for me, definitely.

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  Tags in Character, Period, Mourning

• My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of ‘me’ storytelling.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing, Performing, Creative, Process

• I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it’s just a big play.

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  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Young, People

• I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me.

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  Topics in Youth

  Tags in Think

• If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn’t you also be able to inhabit a character?

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People

• I wasn’t going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story.

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  Topics in College

  Tags in Interested, Story

• A girl’s got to be fun. It’s the one bit of advice I always give to friends of mine who are thinking of getting married.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Girl, Fun, Married

• I think there are times when you walk onto a set you can potentially be either intimidated or distracted by what’s going on around you.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Potentially, Self, Think

• It’s always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Disappointing, People

• I’ve always described parts as tattoos. For actors our tattoos are in the form of films.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Actors, Tattoos, Films

• I’ve always been a bit of a car freak.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freak

• I didn’t study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Study, School

• The most serious film can be the most fun. The one that’s supposed to be fun can be the most serious.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Serious, Film, Fun

• I deliberately fly in and out of LA for as small a time as humanly possible.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humanly, Deliberately, Possible

• It’s always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hope, Actor

Eric Bana (69)

Birth:	9th August, 1968
Nationality:	Australian
Profession:	Actor, Comedian

About

Eric Bana was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He is an Australian actor and comedian. He began his career as a comedian in the sketch comedy series Full Frontal before gaining critical recognition in the biographical crime film Chopper. He has since played Hector in the movie Troy, the lead in Steven Spielberg's historical drama and political thriller Munich. He played police sergeant Ralph Sarchie in the horror film Deliver Us from Evil. His other films include: Black Hawk Down, Hulk, Star Trek, and Lone Survivor. He received Australia's highest film and television awards for his performances in Chopper, Full Frontal and Romulus, My Father.

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