Adrien Brody Quotations

So for the entire movie I had braces. I never knew what braces were like and I didn't know they ripped them off with pliers at the end, but I agreed to do that.

Of course I think it's relevant to what is happening today, ... We experience a lot of oppressive forces and we're powerless to a certain extent.

One thing I'm now asked is 'Oh, you're changing, you're now doing studio movies',

I'd like to do, you know, a lighter film with a beautiful girl and an interesting relationship developing. Humor and slapstick. It's all gravy.

I think it proves I can hold my own in a big studio movie, and I can play a leading man without making him a stereotypical leading man. We can be sensitive human beings in this world and be tough guys, too.

I think people go to movies and they know too much about the movie before they go into it, whether it's the advertising or they're reading too many stories about it. And they know all the essential elements of the film before they even go into it. And I think that sabotages a thriller.

When you're the one character that changes dramatically in the movie ... it better be a change for the better. I think it's an improvement on the past. It's a more likely relationship. A screenwriter would fall in love with the woman he's writing for, his lead actress. I think there wasn't really enough of a love connection on the first one.

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

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

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.

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

I did a real boot camp once which with The Thin Red Line which was learning military exercises and this was far less strenuous. I really had a blast. We were all kind of thrown into the woods and we didn't have any of the modern conveniences that we take for granted. Learned how to survive without anything.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The normal routine is always the same thing whether it's on a new movie or a new job - there's always a process of getting to know one another. I think part of what makes movies special is that it is a relatively intimate environment and it's pretty short-lived - you get to know one another very quickly.

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.

It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

I always had an actor within me.

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.

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

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.

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

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

Part of what attracted me to the village was it had a lot of parallels to contemporary issues. Like, fear and the way fear controls us. How the governing body of a town, or a nation, controls us through fear. They might mean well by it, but we are conditioned to be afraid of things. Fear of the unknown. Fear of terrorism. And it's unfortunate.

You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone

What Peter and Fran and Philippa have been able to do is create all of these nuances that never existed. It's not just a giant gorilla and a damsel in distress.

They wanted to give me prosthetic braces, but I said, 'No, let's get real ones',

I'm sure it would be fun annihilating all my enemies too. I'm not really drawn to that, but as a character I can see it being a lot of fun.

But you pick yourself up. The advantage of being a bigger name is it costs them too much money to cut you out of a movie.

For the most part, people know me for my work,

The media gets a bad rap sometimes. But my mom is a photojournalist, so I see how much she struggles and how under-appreciated she is.