Adrien Brody Quotes

I look for characters that speak to something in me.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.

And God is always calling me to open myself to all kinds of people that I've never thought about before and also calling me on this inward spiritual journey.

Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself.

You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.

As a fan, I connect with realness. Whether it's strong or vulnerable, if it's real, I can connect with it.

My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting, subtle relationship.

Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon... what it means to you.

All the best art and music feels like some type of truth - even if it's really simple - that you just can't deny. A listener can feel that.

I never try and tune anything out. I think that's a mistake. You want to bring all the honest stuff that's going on inside you into your work. Otherwise, you're keeping a lot of authenticity out.

The sentimentality that people see and hear in my commentary and sometimes ridicule, parody or just don't like - that's okay. We're all wired differently. I think about that a lot. I can't explain it. That's just what runs through my blood. It's just the way I look at the world.

It's torment to look in the mirror and not recognize the man in the reflection. How amazing would it be to love someone through their honest and ugly moments?! It takes a journey to work off the mask to become authentic and whole.

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

It's dangerous to assume that because a man is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. I am sure that the reason that I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy.

Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become...appropri ately small.

I think you can't really reach the emotionally intense stuff without having built a genuine light, playful, connected energy, to begin with.

Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.

The outer world is a reflection of our inner selves.

I just need to make sure I don't get in my own way of a truthful and organic moment. Regardless of the research involved, at the end of the day, I have to show up, breathe, and listen.

No; but you came, and found the riddles waiting for you! Indeed you are yourself the only riddle. What you call riddles are truths, and seem riddles because you are not true.

The reason I am so popular is that I give others back what they need to find in themselves. You need me not because I tell you what I want you to do but because I articulate and justify what you want to do.

Don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience.

To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.