So that isn’t the concern. You have to do what you can do, and share what you feel is appropriate to share in the moment.
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.
More Adrien Brody Quotes
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I always had an actor within me.
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Any experience I had, I’d try to reenact it.
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Some people may not appreciate your work and some may be incredibly moved by it.
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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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The normal routine is always the same thing whether it’s on a new movie or a new job
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I did a real boot camp once which with The Thin Red Line which was learning military exercises and this was far less strenuous.
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And then, it’s out of your control.
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We were all kind of thrown into the woods and we didn’t have any of the modern conveniences that we take for granted.
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You get to know one another very quickly.
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They might mean well by it, but we are conditioned to be afraid of things.
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I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I’d try to reenact it.
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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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It’s interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man… life-changing, but I’m just me within that.
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So there’s more competition, so you have to work harder and be right for it.
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If something is incredibly difficult to connect to, and painful, then I have to do a lot of work to connect to that and not joke around or lose sight of my job.
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Film is a time capsule.
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It’s not like I crave attention all the time.
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I think part of what makes movies special is that it is a relatively intimate environment and it’s pretty short-lived.
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Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.
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there’s always a process of getting to know one another.
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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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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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I would imagine it becomes more difficult.
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I bet they didn’t tell you that was in the gift bag.
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War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography,
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There are the obstacles of your position as an actor.
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