Josh Brolin Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy the top 46 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Josh Brolin.
Famous Quotes By Josh Brolin
Look, I'm going to take full advantage of this situation just because I love working with great filmmakers. But I've been around for a while, and I'm not going to play into the hype that I'm some great, you know, discovery. — Josh Brolin
I don't have a favorite I like and then I'll go and watch "Days of Heaven" and I go how beautiful is that. So I think, at least my idea, was lets bring something again that's primitive and guttural but then let's also do something beautiful where you're outside and this isn't a typical western setting. It's lush. It's green. It's beautiful. — Josh Brolin
I love the competitive part of stocks. A lot of fear and greed, that's all it is. All I see is green and red. — Josh Brolin
The last really expensive trip we took was so uncomfortable. It's so lazy. I want somebody to give me a great $30 massage as opposed to a bad $265 massage. — Josh Brolin
When I was in jail I could only think about what the average person has to go through - the person who has no power to go to the press or no money to hire a lawyer. — Josh Brolin
'W.' is not necessarily a political film, but it was sort of a contrasting reality for me to get into George W. Bush as a character because of how I felt about his administration before I started making the film. — Josh Brolin
You have no idea, especially in green screen, what movie you're doing. You really don't. And then, you see the movie and you're like, "Oh, my god, I'm on a cliff right now! I'm having sex right now! I thought I was dancing." — Josh Brolin
I grew up, especially as an actor thinking that I had to move to New York to be a good actor. But after a while you start to live the world a little bit and you start to appreciate where you're from. — Josh Brolin
The only way change will ever happen is if we speak up, and we have to know that it actually has an impact. Because we have a lot more power than we think we do, I think. — Josh Brolin
I've been given an amazing opportunity and I could not be more grateful. But I also know that all this will eventually die off. It's not real. It will go away and then you'll go away and then, I don't know, I'll be left sitting in some English hotel room. — Josh Brolin
I'm very happy to be involved with great filmmakers. — Josh Brolin
There's always been violence in movies, and there will always be violence in movies. Whether it lends to the one psychotic that's out there, thinking the worst thoughts you could possibly thing, is always going to be a mystery. — Josh Brolin
I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes. — Josh Brolin
Anything that is absurd I see as a Coen brothers' influence! The Coen brothers are my favorite people period. — Josh Brolin
It's probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things. — Josh Brolin
I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was always against acting as a profession. I didn't like the monetary fluctuations I saw. — Josh Brolin
To complain now would be kind of sad. I like the way things are going. — Josh Brolin
I gotta make money - it all tends to disappear in this field. — Josh Brolin
We talked to Sergei Bodrov who did "Mongel" who I thought was incredible. There was a lot of people who've done a lot of things that I really appreciate and then you go back to the Italian spaghetti westerns that our spaghetti westerns were based off of so I've seen everything. — Josh Brolin
I was invited to a couple of races, but I was doing a play in New York. — Josh Brolin
Rebellion, just to be clear, can mean holding onto some of your own integrity, of not playing into the idea of sensationalism. We all have our moments, and that's your guys' job - to take those moments and make them turgid, gaseous, make them big, and it's bigger than the person is. When you start believing your own press, that's when it gets really sad. — Josh Brolin
I remember at the premiere of my second movie I started crying. I thought, I'm so bad that I either have to stop this and do something else or learn what I'm doing. — Josh Brolin
Suddenly, I'm in movies that people are excited about, and that is a nice change. — Josh Brolin
It takes me 10 minutes to get ready to go out, and that includes the shower. — Josh Brolin
When accepting or preparing for a role, fear is the motivating factor. — Josh Brolin
My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness. — Josh Brolin
My craziest on-set story comes from during the Goonies, when I came up to Spielberg and said that I wanted to climb the walls of the tunnels and that it represented my mother's womb, for some odd reason. I was reading Stanislawski at the time and Spielberg's response was "Why don't you just act." — Josh Brolin
You have to be okay with wins and losses. You can't just be looking for the wins and, when the losses happen, you can't buy more and more because you're sure it's going to bounce. We call that revenge trading. — Josh Brolin
George W. Bush brought a lot of minorities into his administration, which was a positive thing, and they had some issues that they wanted to press, but 9/11 really gave them direction. It gave them a purpose. — Josh Brolin
As an actor, doing it for 30 years, with every movie, you're trying to figure out a way to make it more naturalistic and more organic to humanity. When you have lines like, "Never let the monster out," it's hard. — Josh Brolin
Fear - there's always fear. You re-create yourself in every movie, don't you? — Josh Brolin
The next couple of jobs will determine, at least from a business point of view, if I'm a guy who's actually the real thing or I'm a guy who's had a nice moment. — Josh Brolin
You've got this guy who refuses to die for some reason whether it be a physical or metaphysical reason or spiritual reason so you can do anything. You can kill off anybody and you can still bring them back because he's kind of half there and half in reality, you know? — Josh Brolin
I read comic books and stuff but I didn't know a lot about it. — Josh Brolin
I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out. — Josh Brolin
I love the whole of California, I have places ... my whole thing is with all the money I make, I just want to buy as many places in California as I can because I love it. — Josh Brolin
Nothing misleads people like the truth. — Josh Brolin
I think those little laundry detergent capsules are an amazing thing to have. — Josh Brolin
You might be an interested guy, an interested reported then I get to know you and then I know you're this also and you're this also and you may hide it in a certain way. That's what I love. — Josh Brolin
I got picked on a lot. I was a complete geek in school. I had braces. I didn't have the hot girlfriend. I wasn't ever sought after. I was a stocky, awkward kid who got laughed off the tennis court when I tried that. — Josh Brolin
I read "Milk" and immediately I was very emotional after reading it and then I saw the documentary - the one that Rob Epstein did - and I said that's it. I saw it with my daughter and that was it. This thing is a different thing. It's like I've been offered these kind of superhero movies or "Terminator" or whatever those movies are and I just go ahh. — Josh Brolin
Folks can believe what they like but eventually a man's got to declare if he's going to do what is right. — Josh Brolin
I used to go to Vegas and play the horses, and then I realised how ridiculous that was. There is no winning in gambling, but there is on the stock market. — Josh Brolin
I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment. — Josh Brolin
Football? Forget it. I didn't have that thing inside me where I wanted to smash against somebody and watch them break. I was too sensitive for that and disliked being that sensitive. — Josh Brolin
I have a long way to catch up. I have to start with the pros this year, about 20 seconds back. — Josh Brolin