Adrien Brody Quotes

As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.

I think that when I'm an actor, I get hired, and you say jump three inches, I'll jump three inches. I just kind of trust what the writer's vision is.

Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it's considered a quality and something to behold.

Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.

I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.

Working with a great actor is really educational.

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

I'm always amazed when any actor can decipher my direction.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

I just love acting. Being in theater or being in television or film, I'm really living out my destiny.

Whether it's t-shirt and jeans or full monster suit, I'm still an actor underneath it all, and a good director is going to know that.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

The only thing we are as actors are messengers. That's all we are. Correct? We are delivering the playwright's intention through the concept of the director. And I come on stage; if I feel confident in the role, then I give it away.

I don't think it's necessary to be an actor to get great performances out of an actor. But I do think it helps me as a director because I know what I like as an actor, and I try to get that to the actors who I'm working with.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

As an actor, acting is like playing a sport. You do this thing that's intangible, and while it's happening, it's great. But then when it's done, there's really no tangible product. Someone else is capturing it and turning it into something tangible.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.

People take years learning how to act; it's a skill, not just a job. If I tried it out and thought I'd be OK, then perhaps I'd go for it, but it's not the kind of thing you can get into just because of your looks.

Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.

I love working with the actors eye-to-eye. I think something gets lost in translation, not only through a monitor, but when you leave the area where the actual scene is taking place.

You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.

Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm auditioning for understand I'm an improviser and I like to do that, and if they like that or if they just want someone who's going to do what's written.