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.
ADRIEN BRODYAnd that can even be extremely lucrative, but I love it either way.
More Adrien Brody Quotes
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You’d think that you’d be able to convey more through dialogue.
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Film is a time capsule.
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Fear of the unknown. Fear of terrorism. And it’s unfortunate.
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Obviously I’m not there to pick up anybody, but I’m not afraid to hang out in a predominantly gay establishment.
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You get to know one another very quickly.
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Doing interviews is very different from working as an actor.
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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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Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.
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Being just yourself means you’re unselfconscious in that moment.
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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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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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And often times it gets manipulated, sometimes intentionally, by pulling things out of context.
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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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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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It’s interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man… life-changing, but I’m just me within that.
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