Adrien Brody quotes
- From the movie: Detachment
How are you to imagine anything if the images are always provided for you? Doublethink. To deliberately believe in lies, while knowing they're false. Examples of this in everyday life: "Oh, I need to be pretty to be happy. I need surgery to be pretty. I need to be thin, famous, fashionable." Our young men today are being told that women are... (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Detachment
“To defend ourselves, and fight against assimilating this dullness into our thought processes, we must learn to read. To stimulate our own imagination, to cultivate our own consciousness, our own belief systems. We all need skills to defend, to preserve, our own minds.”
- From the movie: Detachment
“Just listen to me: we’re all the same. We all feel pain. We all have chaos in our lives. Life is very very confusing.”
- From the movie: The Pianist
“Sell this. Food is more important than time.”
- La trovi in Addiction and Actors
“You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone.”
- From the movie: Detachment
“Life is an ocean of chaos and the realization that you are the one supposed to throw the buoy while struggling to stay afloat is devastating.”
- From the movie: The Darjeeling Limited
- From the TV Series: Peaky Blinders
“Luca Changretta-I'm Luca Changretta.
Alfie Solomons-Oh yeah, I know who you are. You're a bit of a failure, aren't you? You come all the way over here in this country to kill Tommy Shelby, but... I mean, well, he's not dead, is he?” - From the movie: Hollywoodland
“I can see the pieces. How they should fit. How I want them to fit.”
- From the movie: The Pianist
“- Wladyslaw Szpilman: You've got to give me something to do.
- Yehuda: You're an artist, Wladek. You do enough.
- Wladyslaw Szpilman: I want to help. I want to do something.
- Yehuda: You're too well known, Wladek. And you know what? You musicians don't make good conspirators. You're too... too... musical!” - From the movie: The Affair of the Necklace
“Are you digging for potatoes?”
- From the movie: King Kong
“Actors! They travel the world, all they ever see is a mirror.”
- From the movie: The Pianist
“If I'm going to die, I prefer to die in my own home.”
- From the movie: Detachment
“We all have problems, we all have things that we're dealing with some days we're better than others, some days we're not so great. Sometimes we have limited space for others.”
- From the movie: Detachment
“Some of us believe that we can make a difference, and then somethimes we wake up, and then realized we failed.”
- From the movie: Hollywoodland
“- Louis Simo: Whatever you want to say.
- Laurie Simo: Are you going to fight everybody?
- Louis Simo: I thought you liked tough guys.” - From the movie: Predators
“This planet is a game preserve. And we're the game. In case you didn't notice, we just got flushed out. They sent the dogs in, just like you if you were stalking boar or shooting quail. They split us apart and they watched. Testing us.”
- From the movie: The Grand Budapest Hotel
- From the movie: King Kong
“- Jack Driscoll: I always knew you were nothing like the tough guy you play on the screen. I just never figured you for a coward.
- Bruce Baxter: Hey, pal. Hey, wake up. Heroes don't look like me - not in the real world. In th real world they got bad teeth, a bald spot, and a beer gut. I'm just an actor with a gun who's lost his motivation.” - From the movie: Predators
“- Edwin: We're on an alien hunting planet. You really think the solution is to walk more?
- Royce: It wants us to run. That's how it hunts. This is its jungle. Its game. Its rules. We run, we die.
- Isabelle: What's the alternative?
- Royce: We need to know what we're dealing with. Dog tracks go that way. We go after it.” - La trovi in Motivational Quotes
“It would be terribly boring to be earnest.”
- La trovi in Reputation and Popularity
“It's great when people appreciate your work, but I don't know how seriously to take it.”
- From the movie: Hollywoodland
“Nobody has magic powers. You got to be tough. You got to show them what you're made of, you know? My father never taught me that.”
- From the movie: Love the Hard Way
- From the movie: Summer of Sam
“- Vinny: Don't tell nobody. It's between you and me. Its bad enough that I ball her, right, but then some sick side of me had to drive her right past the spot where we were stickin' it up her cousin's ass, you know. Oh shit, and that's where I saw the dead bodies, right there. You know what, God spared me. He spared me, man. 'Cause it's a...” (continue)(continue reading)
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