Learned how to survive without anything.
ADRIEN BRODYDepending on what my job requirement is, my techniques change.
More Adrien Brody Quotes
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It’s not like I crave attention all the time.
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Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.
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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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there’s always a process of getting to know one another.
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And the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world,
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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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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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The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing.
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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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Because the successful actors who’ve been in the game for a while want those roles.
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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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Film is a time capsule.
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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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And that can even be extremely lucrative, but I love it either way.
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How the governing body of a town, or a nation, controls us through fear.
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So there’s more competition, so you have to work harder and be right for it.
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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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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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And often times it gets manipulated, sometimes intentionally, by pulling things out of context.
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There are the obstacles of your position as an actor.
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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.
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You get to know one another very quickly.
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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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So far, it’s an interesting ride, and I’m curious to see what I can find next.
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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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They might mean well by it, but we are conditioned to be afraid of things.
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