Josh Brolin Quotes

United States, Actor
February 12, 1968

Josh James Brolin (/ˈbroʊlɪn/) is an American actor. His first role was in the 1985 film The Goonies. Since then he has appeared in a wide range of movies and is best known for his work as Llewelyn Moss in No Country for Old Men, George W. Bush in W. and Dan White in Milk, the last of which earned him Academy Award and SAG Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor.

I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.

Josh Brolin
- Reality
- Actor
- Ego
When accepting or preparing for a role, fear is the motivating factor.

Josh Brolin
- Fear
- Role
- Preparing

Fear - there's always fear. You re-create yourself in every movie, don't you?

Josh Brolin
- Movie
- Fear
- Recreate
You have to be okay with wins and losses. You can't just be looking for the wins and, when the losses happen, you can't buy more and more because you're sure it's going to bounce. We call that revenge trading.

Josh Brolin
- Revenge
- Wins
- Trading
You might be an interested guy, an interested reported then I get to know you and then I know you're this also and you're this also and you may hide it in a certain way. That's what I love.

Josh Brolin
- Interested
- Hide
- Reported
Nothing misleads people like the truth.

Josh Brolin
- People
- Truth
- Misleads
I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was always against acting as a profession. I didn't like the monetary fluctuations I saw.

Josh Brolin
- School
- Acting
- Profession
There's always been violence in movies, and there will always be violence in movies. Whether it lends to the one psychotic that's out there, thinking the worst thoughts you could possibly thing, is always going to be a mystery.

Josh Brolin
- Violence
- Movies
- Mystery

Folks can believe what they like but eventually a man's got to declare if he's going to do what is right.

Josh Brolin
- Right
- To Do
- Declare
The only way change will ever happen is if we speak up, and we have to know that it actually has an impact. Because we have a lot more power than we think we do, I think.

Josh Brolin
- Happen
- Impact
- Speak Up