Edward Furlong Quotes

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

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

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

I don't think anyone has a normal family.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

As I get older, I'm more willing to take on more, I guess. I feel more comfortable kind of being different characters and kind of stretching it a little more. Like with The Visitation. At least for me, being an actor, I have to draw from human experiences, so it was kind of a stretch playing that role. Kind of supernatural... kind of like what I did in The Crow actually.

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!

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

I'd definitely say I end up being more attracted to darker roles. Probably because I like darker movies and plus, just as an actor, I think it's always more fun to play the darker roles where you get to stretch your arms a little bit more. It's like therapeutic.

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.

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

Basically, man, I just love myself.

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

You just can't go around killing people!

Jim Cameron used to call me 'Special Ed.'

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

In a lot of ways being actor is like with any job, at first it's sort of like alien to you a little bit... a little foreign. And then as time goes on... when I was a kid I'd take a role... it's kind of funny too, because now I have the attitude also "All I am is just like making movies." When you're a kid it's like, "Oh my god, I'm making a movie! It's so much pressure!".

I love acting. I can't imagine anything else that I would do. I know a lot of actors that really want to be directors and be musicians and all that stuff. I like acting and I feel like I'm good at it. It kinda makes me happy. It's actually pretty easy to me and I can't imagine doing anything else at this point because I've been doing it for so long.

It is in your nature to destroy yourselves.

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

I enjoy playing people that are totally different than me.

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

Im not this tortured soul or anything.

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.

People aren't born racist.