Eric Bana Quotes

I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I've finished a movie but don't tell anyone.

I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair.

Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.

I'm always one time zone behind myself.

You have to be proactive about your destiny and then realize that the other half of it is completely out of your control. I think it's fascinating.

I'm spending all my time and energy on the project at hand.

I've always been a bit of a car freak.

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

I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.

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

I would never say never to returning to comedy.

My chosen exercise is cycling. I just love it.

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

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.

The darker the film, the more vital everyone's sense of humor is on set.

I'm a bit of a romantic.

I fell in love with many women at school who had no idea I existed. I'm a bit of a romantic.

I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.

I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible.

The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the right amount of time.

Technically speaking, you can build anything out of sand; it doesn't mean you do it.

I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, 'Bring back the spikes, Dad.'

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

I'm always reading and looking around for the next thing.

The only thing that may make me different from other people is I have passionate interests outside of work.

When you're shooting a film, you really don't get to be a dad, and you don't really get to be a husband. You don't really exist at all. But I do drag my family with me on location whenever I can.

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

The reason my kids come to the set is so I can actually see them.

The movies people don't talk about or remember after six months' time don't really matter.

I was a fan of the television show as a kid but I wouldn't say that I've followed all the movies or anything like that. But I was a television junkie as a kid.

I guess on a base level that's one of the first parental instincts that you have with children in Australia is learn to swim. Not only learn to swim but learn to swim strong.

I'm not into bikinis or other revealing clothing.

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

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

My wife and I really, really like each other as well as love each other.

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.

Film sets are great fun. Film people are great people to hang around with. I don't want to run off and be distracted by other things.

If a great comedy landed on my doorstep, I would find it hard to say no.

Without a doubt, rowing is the hardest thing you can attempt to learn in a short period of time.

I never really think much about the size of a production because I think as an actor, once you're in it, it's all the same. I never ever pick projects based on their size.

I knew a bit but we don't study a lot of British history at school in Australia. We have our own 50-year period to concentrate on.

If I read something and I love it, I'll do it and I don't even ask what the budget is.

I don't consciously seek out Australian projects. I put them on the same table as all the other scripts and I wouldn't ever do a film just because it's been shot at home.

I love working with people who have had television experience because I think there's a real efficiency and methodology that comes from that background.

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.

The longer you have something, the stronger the bond. That's true with people as well as things.

Abs are for people with no friends.

But it's healthy - whatever you can do to keep you fresh and awake. Acting's such a ridiculous job and sometimes you need to look at it like that to get a sort of degree of freshness.

I have a theory that I really want my kids to know - the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work.

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.