I know a lot of people my age are still trying to figure out what to do, and I consider myself lucky that I can make a living doing something that I truly enjoy. Edward Furlong More Quotes by Edward Furlong More Quotes From Edward Furlong I don't think anyone has a normal family. Edward Furlong normal family thinking Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it. Edward Furlong baggage pissed-off hate 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. Edward Furlong musician acting long 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. Edward Furlong intelligent girl want 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. Edward Furlong racism talking people 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. Edward Furlong fun thinking 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. Edward Furlong crow being-different character A lot of people my age are so hyper. I like hyper people. Edward Furlong hype age people But i think it would drive me more crazy to just go do a movie that I didn't believe in, you know? Edward Furlong crazy believe thinking 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. Edward Furlong odessa littles watches 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! Edward Furlong tire men thinking But I'm not like sad, depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression. Edward Furlong miserable-person sometimes giving It hasn't been a totally smooth road, but in the whole span of things I feel like a very lucky person. Edward Furlong smooth lucky feels 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!". Edward Furlong aliens attitude kids It's really hard to find good movies, and that's pretty much what I try to find, good movies. Edward Furlong good-movie trying beauty 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. Edward Furlong girl kids ideas Jim Cameron used to call me 'Special Ed.' Edward Furlong call-me used special 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. Edward Furlong rock-and-roll confused rocks I am very, very competitive and ambitious. I would definitely fight hard for a role I believed in. Edward Furlong ambitious roles fighting Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie. Edward Furlong random-things detroit rocks