Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.
ADRIEN BRODYA 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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Not being a commodity enough to be hired by the big directors for projects that have some kind of integrity.
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Any experience I had, I’d try to reenact it.
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It’s not like I crave attention all the time.
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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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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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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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I always had an actor within me.
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The normal routine is always the same thing whether it’s on a new movie or a new job
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there’s always a process of getting to know one another.
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Or maybe we’re all self-conscious to an extent.
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I would imagine it becomes more difficult.
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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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And then, it’s out of your control.
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Like, fear and the way fear controls us.
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So there’s more competition, so you have to work harder and be right for it.
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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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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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You meet a pretty girl, you’re different from when you meet a tough kid on the street.
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Some people may not appreciate your work and some may be incredibly moved by it.
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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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I bet they didn’t tell you that was in the gift bag.
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Part of what attracted me to the village was it had a lot of parallels to contemporary issues.
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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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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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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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