I really had a blast.
ADRIEN BRODYThere are the obstacles of your position as an actor.
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People think fame and money will bring you happiness.
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Any experience I had, I’d try to reenact it.
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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 would be terribly boring to be earnest.
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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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And that can even be extremely lucrative, but I love it either way.
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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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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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Like, fear and the way fear controls us.
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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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It’s been very helpful for my career, but I’m trying to stay on the path I was on before.
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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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My 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 would imagine it becomes more difficult.
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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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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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The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing.
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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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You meet a pretty girl, you’re different from when you meet a tough kid on the street.
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So there’s more competition, so you have to work harder and be right for 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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Doing interviews is very different from working as an actor.
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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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You get to know one another very quickly.
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It’s great when people appreciate your work, but I don’t know how seriously to take it.
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So far, it’s an interesting ride, and I’m curious to see what I can find next.
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