Adrien Brody Quotes
There are the obstacles of your position as an actor, not being a commodity enough to be hired by the big directors for projects that have some kind of integrity, because the successful actors who've been in the game for a while want those roles. So there's more competition, so you have to work harder and be right for it.
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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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I've learned never say never.
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Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
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I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.
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I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.
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I don't like messing up. I think that's just a part of my personality. I don't like to mess up or do anything wrong. When I'm in gymnastics, I like to see my hit percent as high as possible.
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When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to be an exchange student to a small town in Argentina called Goya.
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The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
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I am the hero of Africa.
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Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.
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Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.
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People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.
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Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.
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Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you'll be about what's going to happen to it, where it's going, what it sounds like, whether it's right.
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I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.
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Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
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People ask me, 'Isn't it scary living on your own?' but in this industry, being at events, doing interviews, and doing promotion and constantly chatting about yourself, sometimes it's really nice to just sit in silence or take a day where you can sleep in until 3 P.M. and then stay up as late as you like.
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There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private.
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I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across.
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I've been very lucky as an actor. I have worked all the time. Some shows I do, they get cancelled. Some, they're critically acclaimed, and then they get cancelled. And some, I'm in the last season of this or that. But I can't complain about my career.
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The desire for attention has become a primal need along the lines of food, water, and clothing.
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There are the obstacles of your position as an actor, not being a commodity enough to be hired by the big directors for projects that have some kind of integrity, because the successful actors who've been in the game for a while want those roles. So there's more competition, so you have to work harder and be right for it.
