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.”

— Adrien Brody

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

— Adrien Brody

“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.”

— Adrien Brody

“It would be terribly boring to be earnest.”

— Adrien Brody

“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.”

— Adrien Brody

“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.”

— Adrien Brody

“I always had an actor within me.”

— Adrien Brody

“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.”

— Adrien Brody

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.

— Adrien Brody

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

— Adrien Brody

“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.”

— Adrien Brody

“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.”

— Adrien Brody

“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.”

— Adrien Brody

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

— Adrien Brody

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

— Adrien Brody

“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.”

— Adrien Brody

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

— Adrien Brody

“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.”

— Adrien Brody

“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.”

— Adrien Brody

“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.”

— Adrien Brody

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

— Adrien Brody

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

— Adrien Brody