I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that’s kept me in line. Really in line.
ADRIEN BRODYI grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that’s kept me in line. Really in line.
ADRIEN BRODYI really had a blast.
ADRIEN BRODYIt’s been very helpful for my career, but I’m trying to stay on the path I was on before.
ADRIEN BRODYPeople think fame and money will bring you happiness.
ADRIEN BRODYI did a real boot camp once which with The Thin Red Line which was learning military exercises and this was far less strenuous.
ADRIEN BRODYIt made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness.
ADRIEN BRODYI always had an actor within me.
ADRIEN BRODYIt’s interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense.
ADRIEN BRODYDepending on what my job requirement is, my techniques change.
ADRIEN BRODYI think part of what makes movies special is that it is a relatively intimate environment and it’s pretty short-lived.
ADRIEN BRODYAny experience I had, I’d try to reenact it.
ADRIEN BRODYWhat guides me is to do work that’s more avant-garde – things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.
ADRIEN BRODYA little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.
ADRIEN BRODYMy parents have raised me with a sense of what’s really important and have given me decent values, and I’m comfortable, but I haven’t lived an excessive lifestyle in the least. And I’ve kept my expenses to a minimum so that I have the freedom to wait.
ADRIEN BRODYMy dad told me, ‘It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success’, and it took me seventeen and a half years.
ADRIEN BRODYWe were all kind of thrown into the woods and we didn’t have any of the modern conveniences that we take for granted.
ADRIEN BRODY