Quotes by Eric Bana

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.

— Eric Bana

Wisdom

I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow.

— Eric Bana

Wisdom

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.

— Eric Bana

Love

I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me.

— Eric Bana

Wisdom

Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue.

— Eric Bana

Success

I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.

— Eric Bana

Success

My chosen exercise is cycling. I just love it.

— Eric Bana

Love

I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a much harder thing to bottle. If you have both, you're in pretty good shape.

— Eric Bana

Love

When I was a kid, I would do stupid things on my bike. I'd jump any ramp, I'd jump over people, I'd jump over things - always crashing, never hurting myself badly but always wanting to take physical risks.

— Eric Bana

Wisdom

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.

— Eric Bana

Wisdom

I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there.

— Eric Bana

Wisdom

I would never say never to returning to comedy.

— Eric Bana

Wisdom

I guess subconsciously that all the great people you work with have an influence on you.

— Eric Bana

Success

I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it's just a big play.

— Eric Bana

Success

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

— Eric Bana

Life

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

— Eric Bana

Wisdom

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

— Eric Bana

Wisdom

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.

— Eric Bana

Wisdom

Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation. It's measurable - unlike acting.

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Wisdom

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.

— Eric Bana

Wisdom

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.

— Eric Bana

Success

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.

— Eric Bana

Wisdom

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.

— Eric Bana

Wisdom

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

— Eric Bana

Wisdom