There are the obstacles of your position as an actor.
ADRIEN BRODYSo 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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Observe and kind of retain it, and study it without feeling like I’m studying it.
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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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It’s interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man… life-changing, but I’m just me within that.
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Being just yourself means you’re unselfconscious in that moment.
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And that can even be extremely lucrative, but I love it either way.
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So there’s more competition, so you have to work harder and be right for 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 amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing.
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I think you have to be fair with one another. It’s unfortunate when someone does something that’s not authentic, or not there for any reason other than to draw attention.
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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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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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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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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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And often times it gets manipulated, sometimes intentionally, by pulling things out of context.
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