Adrian Grenier Quotes & Sayings

The future of cinema and communications is all about collaboration and the decentralized control of storytelling. We're all part of the story; we can all contribute and participate. — Adrian Grenier

We are on parallel paths with the planet. The wants and needs of marine wildlife are our own: we want connection, companionship, a healthy clean environment. — Adrian Grenier

It's really important to find a humble approach to your own creative work, your own business work. To recognize that you can't do everything yourself. — Adrian Grenier

I have always chosen roles that I believed in - not ones that I thought might further my career. — Adrian Grenier

Music is a language of emotion. I'm passionate about it because I think it's the most direct way to connect to the things that are ineffable. Words just aren't necessary a good enough opportunity to express. Words are maybe less than accessible at expressing. — Adrian Grenier

I can't tell you what your purpose is, that's got to come from you. — Adrian Grenier

In narrative films, you set up reality, so you can limit the variables. You don't have that luxury with docs. — Adrian Grenier

Certainly, if it had been anything other than an HBO show I'd probably still be in Mexico now with a Mexican wife and kids. — Adrian Grenier

I am not an artist except that when I envision a concept, I sometimes indulge it. — Adrian Grenier

I'm sort of always trying to reinvent and recreate a better way of being, because, you know, democracy has been "the worst of all political systems except for all the rest." So I think we have a lot of room to grow and be a better society, and it's a constant battle. It's an exciting opportunity to be active. — Adrian Grenier

Maybe the idea of being a rockstar or being the one who's recording or playing, sort of doesn't really matter as much anymore, when you're surrounded by great musicians who bring their spirit, their own talent. — Adrian Grenier

Being performers, that's what we do: We put on shows and want people to watch. — Adrian Grenier

Understanding that which is foreign to you is fundamental to cultivating a sense of connection and unity with one another. We are ultimately trying to accomplish the same thing, which is survival and the thriving of a better world. — Adrian Grenier

I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die. — Adrian Grenier

Food is just the greatest joy on the planet. — Adrian Grenier

I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession. — Adrian Grenier

You can't expect people to do the right thing or else they will go to hell. We are already in hell! — Adrian Grenier

You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there. — Adrian Grenier

I've always been a very rebellious, philosophical person, so my mother set the foundation for my appreciation for nature and my empathy for other people. But then, being a sort of rebellious, philosophical thinker, I'm always looking for new ways to shake things up. So I feel like I'm really lucky to be alive in a time where there's so much opportunity to disrupt and shake it up. It's sort of a combination between that and having the foundation that my mother gave me. — Adrian Grenier

I'm a filmmaker, I'm a storyteller, an entertainer, if you will, so what can I do to participate? Well, I'm not a scientist; I'm not an expert on environmental law; I'm a guy that can tell stories. So I always look for a way to communicate ideas and help to spread excitement for change. — Adrian Grenier

I think you can find a lot of joy and inspiration through food. I think when you find depression and sadness and hopelessness, many times it's connected to certain food and access to quality and nutrition. — Adrian Grenier

I think in the old music, everything was so competitive. It was all about - very selfish in a lot of ways. — Adrian Grenier

Secondly, love and relationships are complicated. No one could ever get it right in a four-line sentence. — Adrian Grenier

Success is knowing that your contribution is what helps the collective. — Adrian Grenier

When you are dealing with real life, there is no way to control it. — Adrian Grenier

Ethical systems and practices need to look good. They have to be desirable, well-designed and work well. — Adrian Grenier

I don't like putting people on a pedestal, I think ideas are more exciting — Adrian Grenier

There's never a better way of living than just improving our quality of life. — Adrian Grenier

I don't shop. I haven't shopped in about four years. — Adrian Grenier

My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent. — Adrian Grenier

I think it's important that we run that tension between the way things are, in terms of the way we're governed, and the way we sort of become complacent. — Adrian Grenier

I want to show people that environmentalism can be fun! — Adrian Grenier

I'm a self-taught musician, so I never really had the restrictions of any one instrument. I would always just sort of pick up instruments and make noise with 'em. — Adrian Grenier

My family is mostly a chosen one. I've managed to invite some really amazing people into my life and they become family. Brothers, sisters, siblings, mentors, role models. And I like to live that way, where your family bleeds out into the larger community. — Adrian Grenier

What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life. — Adrian Grenier

Happiness doesn't come from commercial success but from the quality of work that you give back to your immediate community. — Adrian Grenier

Because when you go out, and you have fun, basically you're performing for these tabloid outlets and the paparazzi. And when you perform and create this story, they're chuffed - they get excited, they capture it, and they put it out. — Adrian Grenier

People, instead of competing, they can actually support each other, in music. — Adrian Grenier

It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back. — Adrian Grenier

We have a lot to learn from everyone. — Adrian Grenier

As great as technology is, it still has it's limitations, because it's only a frame of the truth — Adrian Grenier

Let's show people how desirable it is to step it up and climb towards heaven. — Adrian Grenier

I am happy to have success in the entertainment biz, but the root of my happiness comes from my neighborhood, NYC. — Adrian Grenier

I think, in a lot of ways, celebrities represent the American dream. They have financial fluidity and options at their disposal. — Adrian Grenier

We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives. — Adrian Grenier

I've been given the opportunity to be alive in this day and age, and it's rare. — Adrian Grenier

I really do believe that in order to overcome our environmental shortcomings, we have to act united as a people, and that means that every individual has to participate and do their part. Certainly, we need government and legislation, but the governments really listen to people, so we all have to bring to the table our own effort or our own passion in whatever way that manifests itself. — Adrian Grenier

Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do. — Adrian Grenier

You can't scale if you do it alone, you really need to work with others. — Adrian Grenier

Tabloids can be fun. I see stuff sometimes and have a good laugh. — Adrian Grenier

I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing. — Adrian Grenier

I don't need success, I just need to be constantly evolving. — Adrian Grenier

I enjoy pumping iron, but I do try and get the yoga, 'cause it's a nice balance to the weightlifting. — Adrian Grenier

I was rebellious. — Adrian Grenier

Well, obviously I'm not Mark Wahlberg - I have much better abs and I look much better in a pair of Calvin Kleins but when I saw Mark Wahlberg interacting with the world, I realised that his stardom was sort of a result of the movies he had done and the publicity that he had got and the work that he did. — Adrian Grenier

I think we need to recognize that learning is a lifelong goal, a lifelong experience. — Adrian Grenier

It's what we live for, to be able to make great illusions. The thing about 'Entourage' is everything we do is realistic. We go to the real places, we shoot on location. We get the real people. It's a perfect marriage between fact and fiction. — Adrian Grenier

That's what we do on 'Entourage.' We embed ourselves in legitimate authentic moments so wherever the action is happening, we're taking pieces from that red carpet. — Adrian Grenier

Everything I do, it's all about making every moment a quality, meaningful moment. — Adrian Grenier

I can play a lot of things, but I haven't mastered any one. I use music really as a form of raw expression; escape from the real world. — Adrian Grenier

I have a bunch of concepts and ideas that I want to do but I have also been growing my production company in general and looking to branch out of projects that I am directing and producing. — Adrian Grenier

Celebrities become divas because they get pampered so much, babied so much - then they get used to it. — Adrian Grenier

When I feel myself getting overwhelmed, I take a deep breath and eat a piece of chocolate. — Adrian Grenier

The problem with modern consumption and mass-produced products is they're designed to just literally be shoved into our mouths and rushed. — Adrian Grenier

In the new music landscape, with is the democratization of the internet and music in general, I think it can be a lot more collaborative. — Adrian Grenier

The problem to me with environmentalism is the idea that we're all gonna die and we need to save ourselves. I don't think it's necessarily the right way to go about it, because I think we need to really just improve our every moment and improve our quality of life. And that will, sort of by default, save us. — Adrian Grenier

Not to say that you shouldn't strive for success, but don't forget why you're doing it. It's not just for adoration. — Adrian Grenier