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.
ADRIEN BRODYMy dad told me, ‘It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success’, and it took me seventeen and a half years.
More Adrien Brody Quotes
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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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It’s not like I crave attention all the time.
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Film is a time capsule.
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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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It would be terribly boring to be earnest.
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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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Fear of the unknown. Fear of terrorism. And it’s unfortunate.
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Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.
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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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It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness.
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War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography,
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Being just yourself means you’re unselfconscious in that moment.
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They might mean well by it, but we are conditioned to be afraid of things.
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Because the successful actors who’ve been in the game for a while want those roles.
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The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing.
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