Emile Hirsch

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Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.

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The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.

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I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again.

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I know what wanting and craving adventure feels like, I can really relate to that.

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When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya!

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If you give an actor any wiggle room to whine in situations where they want to whine, you're gonna whine.

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I've definitely had ideas and plans that sometimes exceed my means and capabilities.

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Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good.

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On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.

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Believe it or not, I got into the charismatic, shady, sly heart of Sedgewick Bell by watching CNN and C-SPAN.

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