Zitat des Tages von Emory Cohen:
My first two or three films, all I was trying to do was look cool. That's all I knew acting was.
When it comes to a love story, you're like, 'I've been in love before.' So it's closer to you than the other stuff, and for me, that can be less comfortable.
I'm zero to a hundred in almost every facet of my life.
I'm just trying to be Emory Cohen.
When I'm playing a bad guy, a lot of it is imagined: things I thought I wanted to do, but I never would do them.
That's what separates actors - I'll take any risk for a performance.
I'll play a happy character, but most characters are driven by a pain or a fear. They are driven by something deep down, and most people are like that in the sense. And so, that's what interests me.
I really respect people who are just getting by with their 9 to 5s.
The old joke in my family is that the last person who isn't from New York was coming from Russia.
I did 'Pines,' and everybody wanted me to be the bad boy. Then I did Tony in 'Brooklyn,' and everybody wanted me to be the sweet kid. So I just want to keep everybody on their toes. Basically, that was the thought process.
Everyone's inspired by Brando. When I started acting, my dad showed me 'On the Waterfront,' and I thought, 'That's the coolest guy I've ever seen.'
After I did 'Brooklyn,' I did about five or six violent films in one way or another, and not always with me being the bad guy, but something violent about it to keep the street cred up, really.
'House of a Thousand Corpses' by Rob Zombie - I love that movie. I really do.
I'm a fourth-generation New Yorker. My family has been in New York for many, many years.