Brad's Quotes

This part is just stuff that Brad said. Sorry if i get anything wrong...

Anything to do with movies

• There is no way in this world I would make a film like Home Alone. It's just not me. I don't people to think I'm cutesy cute.
• (on what stylists do to his hair) I love it. It doesn't matter what a geek I look like. it's just getting into the character that pumps me up.
• I just want to keep doing great movies and I hope the rest will fall into place. i would like to do every type of movie there is.
• (when he was preparing for his Telling Lies in America role) I'm listening to tapes of someone speaking English with a Hungarian accent. I'm trying to find a happy medium so i don't sound too Hungarian or too American.
• (on Apt Pupil) I've always been cast as the rebel, the over sensitive bad boy who we all try to fall in love with. Instead, I wanted to play a very articulate boy who just happened to be a Nazi. At first, everyone is like, 'Oh, this big Nazi, this poor boy.' At the end, it's the boy who's the monster. It's a horror film.
• You can't take rejection personally.
• When you're on the set, you're in this bubble of people who live and work together. It's not too much like reality at all! But in general, my Grandma Joanne keeps me in line and I have to go to school and do boring stuff that all the kids have to do. In some ways being an actor is harder because you have to go to school, or get a tutor on the set, do your homework, take your hour of Phys-Ed. per day. Also learn your lines. And the time you spend on the set, a lot of which is 'down time' but you have to spend it signing pictures or doing interviews. I try to sneak calls to my friends, but usually I don't have the time. I love what I do, don't get me wrong, but it's hard work.
• Showgirls is just 2 hours of shit!

Anything at all

• I really feel i wouldn't be walking around, much less making movies if it weren't for God.
• I don't consider myself famous or better than anyone else.
• Well, you know, i just don't want to be the guy you look at on the cover of (teen) magazines. The guy you look at on the cover...to try to make people's hearts thorb. That's not me, even though I did do this thing in Japan where I was all in leather and it was so disgusting! I enjoyed doing it, but then when I thought about it, I was sick! I'd like people to take me seriously, whatever the hell I am.
• I'm really lucky. I love what I do and get paid for it. I'd do it for free if it was good.
• (on playing his guitar's at home) When I plug in, she (his grandma) pounds on the door. So she definitely prefers Brad Unplugged.
• I don't want a Hollywood life-I just want to be good old Brad.
• I'm not too keen on school. I'm 10 points below Einstein but as far as school goes, I'm not all there.
• My grandmother and my mother are two really good women. I'm lucky to have them both.
• If I could choose a second mother, it would have to be Susan Sarandon. She's the best. I learned how to be a proffesional from her, and I learned a lot of great acting tips, too.
• I'm definitely going to film school now. I want to be like Joel (Schumacher). Joel's like my agent away from my agent. After I let my agent see a script, i ask Joel.
• (on best friend Matt) We're both pretty (opposite) on everything. Like he'll say white and I'll say black just to (tick) him off.
• (on his grandmother) That's my guardian. I feel like an adult that has a very close friend who helps me make decisions about the way things are going.
• I did an impression of Elvis Presley when the crew of a kid's TV show were doing an interview with me at the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. I kinda curled my lip, swiveled my hips and said, 'Thank you very much' in that deep Southern Elvis voice.
• I didn't expect to be on the cover of People magazine or on the National Enquirer or anything like that at all.
• I had a lot of friends in my childhood, but very few that really cared about me y'know?
• I used to write poetry when I was really young, but I never really took myself seriously. I would do poems that were very demented.
• You don't understand. I want you to take my music seriously as well as my art.
• A tear ran down my cheek that somebody would compare me to River Phoenix. He's someone who's completely a genius.
• It's hard for me to trust someone because most everyone I've trusted gave me the short end of the stick.
• (on music) The blues. I love the blues. I went through a punk rock phase too. I adore Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix.
• Tough is a cover up to hide sensitive.
• I play in a band, but I don't want to become like this idol that the only reason somebody would buy my records is because some girl saw me in a movie and thought I was cute. I want people to take my music seriously, as well as the rest.
• (on his Grandma Joanne) She's my guardian. She pretty much tries to keep my head on straight, as opposed to the way I think. She knows I kind of like to have either the appearance or the experience of locking the door and throwing away the key. She'll let me lock the door, but she makes sure she holds the key. She's not going to let me throw away the key.
• Yeah, me and David Bowie go way back, we were hanging out with Mick Jagger in the 60's!

People on Brad

• Mali Finn (casting director)-The wonderful thing about Brad is that he combines both, you know, a toughness and a very sympathetic side. And that is what makes him unique.
• Susan Sarandon-Brad is full of surprises. I learned a lot working with him.
• J.J.Harris (his agent)-I'm afraid (that in LA) he'd fall in with some young actors who do all manner of illegal things, and that would be destructive. Being with his grandmother in a natural part of America is a healthier way to grow up.
• Geoff Widgor-He's very funny. We were always cracking jokes (on the set). He just goes nuts when he does his thing!
• Peter Horton-He does the best Jim Carrey impression of anyone I've ever seen. It's hilarious!