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.
ADRIEN BRODYOr maybe we’re all self-conscious to an extent.
More Adrien Brody Quotes
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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’s something that I don’t want to lose. I like being unnoticed when I don’t feel like being noticed.
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Film is a time capsule.
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Depending on what my job requirement is, my techniques change.
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Being just yourself means you’re unselfconscious in that moment.
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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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Something that I’ve always loved and appreciated is the chance to see something about someone’s character.
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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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The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing.
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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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And often times it gets manipulated, sometimes intentionally, by pulling things out of context.
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It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness.
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You’d think that you’d be able to convey more through dialogue.
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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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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 not like I crave attention all the time.
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I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition.
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You get to know one another very quickly.
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Or maybe we’re all self-conscious to an extent.
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Observe and kind of retain it, and study it without feeling like I’m studying it.
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Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.
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And the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world,
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Any experience I had, I’d try to reenact it.
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I think part of what makes movies special is that it is a relatively intimate environment and it’s pretty short-lived.
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I would imagine it becomes more difficult.
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