Adrien Brody quotes:
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It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. 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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You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone
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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, I would imagine it becomes more difficult.
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You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone.
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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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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 grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.
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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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It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd be able to convey more through dialogue.
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It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted.
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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. I really had a blast. We were all kind of thrown into the woods and we didn't have any of the modern conveniences that we take for granted. Learned how to survive without anything.
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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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I always had an actor within me.
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Depending on what my job requirement is, my techniques change. 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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It's great when people appreciate your work, but I don't know how seriously to take it. The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing, and that can even be extremely lucrative, but I love it either way.
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It would be terribly boring to be earnest.
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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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Part of what attracted me to the village was it had a lot of parallels to contemporary issues. Like, fear and the way fear controls us. How the governing body of a town, or a nation, controls us through fear. They might mean well by it, but we are conditioned to be afraid of things. Fear of the unknown. Fear of terrorism. And it's unfortunate.
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A 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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Film is a time capsule. If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it's permanently there as a negative reminder.
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I think you have to be fair with one another. It's unfortunate when someone does something that's not authentic, or not there for any reason other than to draw attention.
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The normal routine is always the same thing whether it's on a new movie or a new job - there's always a process of getting to know one another. I think part of what makes movies special is that it is a relatively intimate environment and it's pretty short-lived - you get to know one another very quickly.
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I bet they didn't tell you that was in the gift bag.
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People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.