Adrien Brody famous quotes

04-23-2025

You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone
-- Adrien Brody

#Phones #Cells #Cell Phone
I bet they didn't tell you that was in the gift bag.
-- Adrien Brody

#Bags
A little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.
-- Adrien Brody

#Kindness #Attention #Littles
It would be terribly boring to be earnest.
-- Adrien Brody

#Would Be #Boring #Earnest
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.
-- Adrien Brody

#People #Appreciate #Support
Film is a time capsule. If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it's permanently there as a negative reminder.
-- Adrien Brody

#Dedication #Focus #Acting
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.
-- Adrien Brody

#Military #Real #Exercise
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.
-- Adrien Brody

#Thinking #Hands #People
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.
-- Adrien Brody

#Mean #Issues #Village
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.
-- Adrien Brody

#Parent #Lines #Grew Up
I always had an actor within me.
-- Adrien Brody

#Actors
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.
-- Adrien Brody

#Life Changing #Men #Winning
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 Brody

#Thinking #Special #Want
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.
-- Adrien Brody

#Loneliness #Loss #People
People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.
-- Adrien Brody

#Thinking #People #Complicated
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.
-- Adrien Brody

#War #Safety #Film
I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.
-- Adrien Brody

#Kids #Imagination #Trying
My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.
-- Adrien Brody

#Dad #Years #Half
Obviously I'm not there to pick up anybody, but I'm not afraid to hang out in a predominantly gay establishment.
-- Adrien Brody

#Gay #Establishment #Not Afraid

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