Happy Birthday: Aaron Eckhart

Aaron Eckhart

Born: March 12, 1968 in Cupertino, California, USA

[on working with Heath Ledger] My experience was wonderful. It was the experience of…loving to act myself, to watch somebody who loved his character and had the discipline to make a bold creation. I found myself trying to keep up with him and I was also admiring him at the same time. I watched him off-camera and on-camera, as an actor, to see his process. After the day was over, I shook his hand and said, ‘That’s why I’m an actor – ‘cos of guys like you’. So I treasure that time with him…He was brilliant, he was brilliant to watch, he was brilliant to see on a daily basis, on set in the makeup trailer, when we were putting on our makeup together. I was doing Harvey’s and he was doing the Joker’s and trying to figure it out. If you would have said to Heath, ‘Hey dude, this is a superhero movie, why don’t you chill?’ You just wouldn’t say that to him. And I don’t think that the movie would be as special if he did, so I think we all have to strive to those standards.

(2011 quote, on quitting drinking) I couldn’t be happier with that decision. I recommend it to anybody. I did not go to AA…I haven’t had a drink for seven or eight years. I’ve changed my lifestyle. I don’t go out. That’s not just because of drinking, it’s because of getting older. I’ve outgrown it, plus all my friends are married and have kids. I’m very interested in my health and I want to live the rest of my life very healthily. I feel 100 per cent in command of myself, so, when I get up, I never have to ask, ‘where have I been? What have I said?’
 

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