Depending on what my job requirement is, my techniques change.
ADRIEN BRODYObviously I’m not there to pick up anybody, but I’m not afraid to hang out in a predominantly gay establishment.
More Adrien Brody Quotes
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Because it’s up to the journalist not only to understand what I’m trying to convey, but to convey that understanding through their process.
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Fear of the unknown. Fear of terrorism. And it’s unfortunate.
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A little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.
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Observe and kind of retain it, and study it without feeling like I’m studying it.
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The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing.
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Learned how to survive without anything.
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So there’s more competition, so you have to work harder and be right for it.
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Being just yourself means you’re unselfconscious in that moment.
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It’s interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense.
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Because the successful actors who’ve been in the game for a while want those roles.
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The problem is when you become so well known that everyone is watching you and you don’t have an opportunity to observe.
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It would be terribly boring to be earnest.
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What 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.
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It’s interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man… life-changing, but I’m just me within that.
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My dad told me, ‘It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success’, and it took me seventeen and a half years.
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Not being a commodity enough to be hired by the big directors for projects that have some kind of integrity.
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Part of what attracted me to the village was it had a lot of parallels to contemporary issues.
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How the governing body of a town, or a nation, controls us through fear.
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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.
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And then, it’s out of your control.
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So perhaps we always are acting, in a sense. But you meet someone you feel you admire or you “know,” and it’ll be different for that reason.
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Film is a time capsule.
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It’s something that I don’t want to lose. I like being unnoticed when I don’t feel like being noticed.
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You’d think that you’d be able to convey more through dialogue.
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Or maybe we’re all self-conscious to an extent.
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Some people may not appreciate your work and some may be incredibly moved by it.
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