Adam Brown Quotes
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Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
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When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.
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Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.
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I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.
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You're going to see this 'Internet of things' start demanding network performance and making the networks much more aware of what is on top of them.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
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'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.
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I'm based here in L.A., but I think in the future I might consider settling down in Malaysia when I start a family.
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I would love to do a 'Scream'-type movie.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.
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HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.'
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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.
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There's a difference in our ages [with Leonardo DiCaprio], but we were both in the same sort of position [on The Quick and the Death movie].Everyone below us in a casting position were all these really famous character actors like Keith David. And they were looking at the two of us going, 'Who are these guys?' So that naturally kind of put us together in a way where we'd just hang out together because we didn't care about status. We just wanted to enjoy the experience. The two things that have changed about Leo [ DiCaprio] since that time: he can drink legally and he's no longer a virgin.
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I love Scotland, mainly for its landscape. I like walking, and it's a great place to go hiking.
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For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there.
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When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.
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Every congressional committee that does an investigation has documents, papers and things that it collects in the course of that investigation - the backup to everything it does.
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As a first movie, 'The Hobbit' is not a bad place to start.
