Top 30 Adrien Brody Quotes

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.

The only reason to do a television series is to make it successful. And if it is successful, that’s a six or seven year commitment.

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.

Even if you can’t afford to buy a painting, you can experience it. You can go see the Mona Lisa and be transported. You can see the discipline and suffering in a van Gogh.

All commitments require sacrifice and hardship.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The more I have a sincere connection to something, the less acting is required. And the more it’s about creating the space to feel that connection and to feel that shift from yourself. And start interpreting things through new eyes.

Being anonymous is a great luxury. It’s a big loss to lose that. Mostly, the loss is the ability to observe others without being observed yourself. And as an actor, that is your key tool.

Painting, music, photography, and visual art have been creative forms of expression for me for decades.

Some roles require less, and some roles require a great deal of commitment.

Maybe I’m a bit superstitious, but I don’t like to talk about anything until I’ve done it.

I grew up around New York, graffiti culture.

Art can go beyond certain boundaries or blindness that we would have without that.

I always had an actor within me.

I’ve been painting and drawing fish since I was very young. My mom found old pictures I did when I was around 6 or 7 of all these sharks and scuba diver looking back, a big ship, throwing a harpoon. There was already a message within what I saw.

My work as an actor is limited by the voice of the director and the writing.

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

It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

The odd thing is how, I think, the intensity and devotion to my craft and the intensity of certain performances or types of roles I’ve played overshadow the comedic stints that I’ve had. ‘Darjeeling Limited’ is a comedy; The ‘Brothers Bloom‘ is a comedy.

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

Luca Changretta’s not someone you want to be at odds with. It’s a fantastic opportunity for me, and he’s a fascinating character.

In my work as an actor, I have been given even greater insights and have been guided towards empathy and a consciousness of those who are less fortunate.

I’ve been very lucky to work with great filmmakers. But I think my days of just freely acting regularly, that being my sole creative fulfillment, are gone.

I grew up in Queens in N.Y., and in parts of my neighbourhood, there were a lot of Italian Americans and a lot of people who were either affiliated with nefarious people or had seen so many movies that they were embodying that.

I think there’s a lot of catastrophe in this world and a lot of cruelty and a lot of carelessness.

I was depressed for a year after ‘The Pianist,’ and I don’t suffer from that, generally. It wasn’t just a depression; it was a mourning.