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 BRODYWhat 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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Any experience I had, I’d try to reenact it.
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It would be terribly boring to be earnest.
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Being just yourself means you’re unselfconscious in that moment.
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Observe and kind of retain it, and study it without feeling like I’m studying it.
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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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Doing interviews is very different from working as an actor.
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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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Something that I’ve always loved and appreciated is the chance to see something about someone’s character.
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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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Because the successful actors who’ve been in the game for a while want those roles.
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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 take a lot less for granted.
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I really had a blast.
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And often times it gets manipulated, sometimes intentionally, by pulling things out of context.
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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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