It’s interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man… life-changing, but I’m just me within that.
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.
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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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I bet they didn’t tell you that was in the gift bag.
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And the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world,
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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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I have an intense curiosity. And it would be a shame if I lose the ability to do that.
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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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I really had a blast.
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If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it’s permanently there as a negative reminder.
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I would imagine it becomes more difficult.
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People think fame and money will bring you happiness.
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I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition.
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How the governing body of a town, or a nation, controls us through fear.
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They might mean well by it, but we are conditioned to be afraid of things.
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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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You get to know one another very quickly.
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And often times it gets manipulated, sometimes intentionally, by pulling things out of context.
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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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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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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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Observe and kind of retain it, and study it without feeling like I’m studying 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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Or maybe we’re all self-conscious to an extent.
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And that can even be extremely lucrative, but I love it either way.
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You’d think that you’d be able to convey more through dialogue.
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Being just yourself means you’re unselfconscious in that moment.
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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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