It’s interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man… life-changing, but I’m just me within that.
ADRIEN BRODYIt would be terribly boring to be earnest.
More Adrien Brody Quotes
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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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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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And the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world,
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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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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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There are the obstacles of your position as an actor.
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You get to know one another very quickly.
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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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How the governing body of a town, or a nation, controls us through fear.
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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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Like, fear and the way fear controls us.
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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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It’s not like I crave attention all the time.
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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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So there’s more competition, so you have to work harder and be right for it.
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