It’s great when people appreciate your work, but I don’t know how seriously to take it.
ADRIEN BRODYThey might mean well by it, but we are conditioned to be afraid of things.
More Adrien Brody Quotes
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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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Like, fear and the way fear controls us.
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It would be terribly boring to be earnest.
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And that can even be extremely lucrative, but I love it either way.
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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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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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Depending on what my job requirement is, my techniques change.
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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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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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It’s interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man… life-changing, but I’m just me within that.
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I always had an actor within me.
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How the governing body of a town, or a nation, controls us through fear.
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And then, it’s out of your control.
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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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I take a lot less for granted.
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