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Toronto is a special city, and the environment is perfect for the arts; free and alive. I'm a New Yorker, and Toronto reminds me of a much cleaner New York, so it's like coming home after your mom just cleaned your room for you; for me that's a lovely environment.

~Emory Cohen

Topics: After Alive Arts City Cleaned Cleaner Coming Coming Home Environment Free Home Just Like Lovely Me Mom Much New New York New Yorker Perfect Reminds Room Special Toronto York Yorker You Your

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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.

~Emory Cohen

Topics: Bad Bad Boy Basically Boy Brooklyn Did Everybody Just Keep Kid Me Process Sweet Then Thought Thought Process Toes Tony Want Wanted

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When I was a kid, I saw 'Peter Pan,' and I loved Captain Hook and the Lost Boys because they were the 'bad boys.'

~Emory Cohen

Topics: Bad Because Boy Captain Hook Kid Lost Loved Pan Peter Peter Pan Saw Were

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The hardest thing is for me to let the work go and let myself just live. Every actor is different; they each have their own strengths and weaknesses; trust and ease are mine.

~Emory Cohen

Topics: Actor Different Each Ease Every Go Hardest Hardest Thing Just Live Me Mine Myself Own Strengths The Hardest Thing Thing Trust Weaknesses Work

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I come from an intense family - like, we're just intense people. Not bad people or anything, we are just very intense, and I have just always felt like people who weren't like that were just a kind of hiding it, like when I was really young in high school.

~Emory Cohen

Topics: Always Anything Bad Bad People Come Family Felt Hiding High High School Intense Just Kind Like People Really School Very Were Who Young

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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.

~Emory Cohen

Topics: Character Characters Deep Deep Down Down Driven Fear Happy Interests Like Me Most Pain People Play Sense Something

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It's not like every actor needs to train, but an actor will either develop their process through training or through working.

~Emory Cohen

Topics: Actor Develop Either Every Like Needs Process Through Train Training Will Working

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I am constantly interested in people who society calls 'bad' because I don't like to just buy into something that everybody's going to say. I want to investigate that for myself. With a character, you get to fully investigate that emotionally and understand the parts of them that are in pain and scared and are good. That's human.

~Emory Cohen

Topics: Am Bad Because Buy Calls Character Constantly Emotionally Everybody Fully Get Going Good Human Interested Investigate Just Like Myself Pain Parts People Say Scared Society Something Them Understand Want Who You I Am

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I'm glad I chose more vulnerable work about what is love and what is freedom and those kinds of things. But there's something innate in me where I always come back to characters with an edge.

~Emory Cohen

Topics: About Always Back Characters Chose Come Edge Freedom Glad Innate Kinds Love Me More Something Things Those Vulnerable Where Work

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If I wanted to play it safe, I'd get a normal job with a secure paycheck.

~Emory Cohen

Topics: Get Job Normal Paycheck Play Safe Secure Wanted

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: March 13th, 1990

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