American - Actor | February 12, 1968 -
Suddenly, I'm in movies that people are excited about, and that is a nice change.
Josh Brolin
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It takes me 10 minutes to get ready to go out, and that includes the shower.
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I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes.
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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.
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