Josh James Brolin Quotes

• 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 James 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Suddenly, I’m in movies that people are excited about, and that is a nice change.

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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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• It’s probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things.

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• 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.

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• I’m very happy to be involved with great filmmakers.

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• I was invited to a couple of races, but I was doing a play in New York.

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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 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 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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• I have a long way to catch up. I have to start with the pros this year, about 20 seconds back.

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• I gotta make money – it all tends to disappear in this field.

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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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• I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.

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• 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.

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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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Josh James Brolin (19)

Birth:	12th February, 1968
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director, Producer

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