Adrien Brody Quotes

#1. As an adult I've connected a lot with men over the Internet. Nothing seems really notable (pre-"Adrien Brody") except I went to London in July of 2010 and before I went I had a few men lined up to meet, two who made a large impact on me. Both were mentioned in "Adrien Brody."

Marie Calloway

#2. I've never written about a situation involving real people that I haven't directly taken part in. I've never made things up about other people. None of my stories were written with ill-intent towards the other people in them, even though I doubt people will believe that about "Adrien Brody."

Marie Calloway

#3. 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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#4. I always had an actor within me.

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#5. Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.

Meister Eckhart

#6. I [Jacob Hunt, Aspie] see it as the next step of evolution: I cannot take away your sadness, so why should I acknowledge it?

Jodi Picoult

#7. If people are not laughing at your dreams at least once a week, you are aiming too low!

Robin Sharma

#8. Or perhaps she would be applying her innovative light therapy to the White House staff.

Ayse Kulin

#9. I bet they didn't tell you that was in the gift bag.

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#10. 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.

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#11. 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.

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#12. 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.

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#13. Obviously I'm not there to pick up anybody, but I'm not afraid to hang out in a predominantly gay establishment.

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#14. I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition.

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#15. I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.

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#16. 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.

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#17. the more we learn about different countries, the greater the opportunities are to break stereotypes and reclaim HR.

Laurie Ruettimann

#18. 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.

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#19. Depending on what my job requirement is, my techniques change. If something is incredibly difficult to connect to, and painful, then I have to do a lot of work to connect to that and not joke around or lose sight of my job.

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#20. People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.

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#21. I think you have to be fair with one another. It's unfortunate when someone does something that's not authentic, or not there for any reason other than to draw attention.

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

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#23. 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.

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#24. 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.

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#25. It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

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#26. Film is a time capsule. If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it's permanently there as a negative reminder.

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#27. For many people, a western lifestyle equates to living in a toxic home, working a toxic job, eating toxic food, being sick from your thirties onward and eventually dying from preventable disease.

Steven Magee