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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“'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.”

“אני זקוק לסכום כסף מסוים ולא צריך יותר. לא תמצא אותי חי באחוזה אימתנית, זה פשוט לא אני.”

“כששחקן רזה משמין לכבוד תפקיד, ישר רואים עליו, אבל בגלל שאני בחור גדול, אצלי לא מרגישים.”

“העובדה שיש לי עבודה זה דבר נהדר – בשביל שחקן זה משהו עצום, אין מקצוע קשה יותר מבחינת הצלחה – משחק זה המקצוע הקשה ביותר. היחס בין אנשים שרוצים להיות שחקנים לאנשים שבאמת חיים ממשחק פשוט מחריד. תמיד הרגשתי מאוד מסופק שהייתי מסוגל לממן את המשפחה שלי ואת עצמי דרך המקצוע.”

“כל השחקנים אוהבים לחשוב שהם קצת יותר מפורסמים ממה שהם.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I gotta make money - it all tends to disappear in this field.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”