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.
ADRIEN BRODYI did a real boot camp once which with The Thin Red Line which was learning military exercises and this was far less strenuous.
More Adrien Brody Quotes
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Being just yourself means you’re unselfconscious in that moment.
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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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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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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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Like, fear and the way fear controls us.
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I really had a blast.
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Any experience I had, I’d try to reenact it.
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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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People think fame and money will bring you happiness.
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Depending on what my job requirement is, my techniques change.
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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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It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness.
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Or maybe we’re all self-conscious to an extent.
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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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And the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world,
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The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing.
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Because the successful actors who’ve been in the game for a while want those roles.
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Learned how to survive without anything.
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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.
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They might mean well by it, but we are conditioned to be afraid of things.
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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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Not being a commodity enough to be hired by the big directors for projects that have some kind of integrity.
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Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.
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It would be terribly boring to be earnest.
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I take a lot less for granted.
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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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