I didn’t want to contend with how that made me feel, or it becoming part of my narrative. I became depressed. I was blaming myself and I was miserable—because I was saying, ‘This is nothing; this guy reached around and he copped a feel.’ That summer wore on—and I can’t remember what I went on to work on next.

Brendan Fraser

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As a young man I prayed for success. Now I just pray to be worthy of it.

Brendan Fraser

praying inspirational men

I don't believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for.

Brendan Fraser

wish believe thinking

Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.

Brendan Fraser

light dark people

I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.

Brendan Fraser

greek believe thinking

Careers go in cycles. I've plateau-ed. I've been at the bottom of the ocean... You win some, you lose some.

Brendan Fraser

careers ocean winning

Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.

Brendan Fraser

ancestor not-sure wheels

You can't see any movie nowadays really without it having some sort of CGI treatment, albeit whether it's a creature or an environment, something like that. To make a point, sort of poetically in that case, but clearly it was a drama and how do you approach it? Well, I think what you're supposed to do is what the text dictates. What you bring to it and everything you need to know should be there, and pay attention to your director.

Brendan Fraser

drama directors thinking

You should do everything as if it's the last time you might ever do it. Because, you know, it may be.

Brendan Fraser

lasts may might

To swing or not to swing? Swing.

Brendan Fraser

swings

I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on steroids in a lot of ways.

Brendan Fraser

arabia independent mean

Of course I was a dork, but that's OK. Because all the coolest people I know were dorks.

Brendan Fraser

dork knows people

All you have to do is just believe in what's there; then, the audience will, too.

Brendan Fraser

just-believe audience believe

I felt a gravitational pull to the material so that there's a certain element of acting that's not really necessary. I've really liked this in foreign movies before or I've observed others working with them and I've noticed that there's a method that goes on where the actors try and get the children, like the child actor, to interact with them in a real way. It seems like you're the adult trying to get the kid to fall in love with him.

Brendan Fraser

falling-in-love real children

They had a hard time miking me in my loin cloth, I mean, where were they gonna tape it?

Brendan Fraser

tape hard-times mean

The dimensionality of 3D, the depth of field, the dynamism... it's an immersive experience. And on top of that it's great because the new glasses don't make you want to throw up and they don't give you paper cuts!

Brendan Fraser

cutting glasses giving

I wish I could go home. I've been on the road since May. I wonder if my dogs still remember me

Brendan Fraser

dog wish home

In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass.

Brendan Fraser

metals crash glasses

Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours.

Brendan Fraser

rail embrace choices

I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original.

Brendan Fraser

saws film opinion

I remember thinking, I want to work for the camera.

Brendan Fraser

cameras want thinking