Adrien Brody Quotes
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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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
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For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.
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Dude, I turn into a six-year-old when I come to Disneyland. It's amazing. My eyes glass over and my blood pressure goes down. I'm just like everybody else. I turn into a big kid when I come here. It's the happiest place on earth, right?
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Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
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So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.
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When I got to Iraq, my world focused in on one mission. It was incredibly rewarding.
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I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.
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I actually write film music because I'm classically trained on the piano so as well as songwriting I also write actual film music that could be used for movies like war movies and love movies.
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I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.
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Sometimes I really wish that I could sit back and enjoy it, live in the moment more. But I am terrified, and I want to better myself, not that I want to prove anything to anyone other than myself. I am ambitious, and there are many things I want to do. It doesn't get any easier.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.
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Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsiously crave a wee bit ay silence.
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After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception.
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If you think success will make you happy, you have it backwards.
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Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.
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If Russia did interfere in our election - and, by most accounts, they did - then it is imperative for the health of our democracy to have a thorough and unbiased investigation into the matter.
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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.
