Top 70 Eric Bana Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

— Eric Bana

2. “Abs are for people with no friends.”

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3. “Technically speaking, you can build anything out of sand; it doesn’t mean you do it.”

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

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5. “I’m always one time zone behind myself.”

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6. “I’ve always been a bit of a car freak.”

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

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8. “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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9. “I’m not into bikinis or other revealing clothing.”

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10. “I’m spending all my time and energy on the project at hand.”

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

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12. “I’m very much a bit of a ghost presence.”

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13. “Without a doubt, rowing is the hardest thing you can attempt to lean in a short period of time.”

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

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15. “Throw your children in the surf and let them get used to it. They have to learn all about rips and tides and swimming between the flags and all that sort of stuff. I know that sounds ridiculous but it’s true.”

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16. “I would never say never to returning to comedy.”

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17. “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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18. “We shot that in Morocco, and got out of the country at the beginning of July – and two months later came the attack on Twin Towers. The movie was then released in December, so that kind of atmosphere is not something that was unfamiliar to me.”

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19. “When I go on the plane to fly home, I’m literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home, home.”

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20. “I think you need to be able to see a lot of negative in things in order to extract material, so there’s probably something to that. A lot of the people I used to work with were very, very, very unfunny offstage, so that’s a pretty common thing.”

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21. “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.”

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22. “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.”

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23. “I usually befriend the camera department very early on in the film and drive them nuts. I’m constantly bombarding them with questions and going through the stills photography. A film set is a great place for me and I love it.”

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24. “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.”

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25. “I always use the analogy that when you go to a jeans store and put on a new pair of jeans, it’s a pair of jeans and they feel different; so, when you’re dealing with these sort of costumes it’s a very big departure and really does make you feel quite different. But it’s wonderful.”

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

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27. “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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28. “If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn’t you also be able to inhabit a character?”

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29. “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.”

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30. “I’ve had frustrated storytelling juices that have been lying dormant for a long time, and I guess the documentary was a way of me telling a story that I felt most qualified to tell. And I loved it, and I’d love to do something else someday, probably more narrative-based. But I’m in no rush.”

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

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32. “Definitely the script because you want to be part of an interesting story, you want your character to be a challenge, then comes the director. But essentially it’s the script first and whether it’s a character that you think you can do.”

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33. “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.”

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34. “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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35. “There’s a plethora of wonderful documentaries. I made a point of not looking at anyone else’s portrayal of Henry because I think it would have been too confusing – so I’ve got a lot of films to look forward to.”

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36. “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.”

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

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38. “I’ll give you a list of a hundred ways that I’m more likely to be injured than belting around a race track with people who know what they’re doing. It’s not a place where I feel I’m in unnecessary danger.”

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39. “The thing I love about working with first-time directors is that it’s always quite shocking how little difference there is between them and directors who’ve been directing all their lives.”

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40. “I’d say I’m the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me.”

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41. “I don’t like to come at my character from some really technical place.”

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42. “By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don’t really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way.”

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43. “I really enjoy working on small films.”

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44. “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.”

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45. “I tend not to read the size of the production into a script when I’m reading it. It’s just something you respond to or not and I do think it’s very dangerous to say it’s time now to do this or it’s time now to do that.”

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46. “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.”

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47. “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.”

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48. “It’s always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.”

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

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50. “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.”

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