Top 25 Adrien Brody Quotes

You go to a theater, you’re in a darkened room, and you watch someone that you don’t really know how many children they have or what their father’s nickname might be; you don’t have references and databases and rumors and half-truths – you’re just transported by their storytelling.

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

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

I grew up around New York, graffiti culture.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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 always had an actor within me.

I’ve been producing projects, and I hope that It’s inevitable one day that I direct a film. I have a lot of things I want to do.

It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

I love the accessibility that my great nation affords us, but it is virtually inescapable for most people in America, and many places abroad, to rely on inexpensive yet unhealthy meals as a main source of sustenance.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

All commitments require sacrifice and hardship.

I’ve been taking a lot of time to paint and be in nature. I would say I’m happier as a person. More centered. More free.

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.

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

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.