It's something that everybody's wanted to do at some point in their lives. Josh Brolin More Quotes by Josh Brolin More Quotes From Josh Brolin Anything that is absurd I see as a Coen brothers' influence! The Coen brothers are my favorite people period. Josh Brolin influencebrotherpeople I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes. Josh Brolin genesdadlucky I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out. Josh Brolin teethtakenfaces As an actor, doing it for 30 years, with every movie, you're trying to figure out a way to make it more naturalistic and more organic to humanity. When you have lines like, "Never let the monster out," it's hard. Josh Brolin humanitytryingyears You have to be okay with wins and losses. You can't just be looking for the wins and, when the losses happen, you can't buy more and more because you're sure it's going to bounce. We call that revenge trading. Josh Brolin revengewinningloss '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. Josh Brolin politicalcharacterreality You might be an interested guy, an interested reported then I get to know you and then I know you're this also and you're this also and you may hide it in a certain way. That's what I love. Josh Brolin guymaymight I do think, from the other side, that George W. ush was somewhat of an innocent in his thinking about what Ronald Reagan did during the Cold War and by bringing democracy to Eastern Europe. I think he believed that he could do the same thing by bringing democracy - or Midland, Texas, really - to the Middle East. I truly think he felt it was possible. "I want to do for the Middle East what Reagan did for the Soviet Union." Josh Brolin democracywarthinking I'd heard rumors about Oliver Stone before we went to work on and I don't get it. To me, he's one of the most sensitive directors. He is just fascinated by why people act in the ways that they do. His movies are an excuse to explore that idea, and he wants to work with people who are as passionate about exploring it as he is. So we got along brilliantly. Josh Brolin rumorpassionatepeople When the AIDS epidemic first started there were people who said, "Well, if there weren't gays, then we wouldn't have this problem. It's got to be because of them - let it be them instead of us." But when you educate yourself about it, you can't help but realize that we're all affected by it. I think that things like that just become too daunting for people. Josh Brolin gaypeoplethinking I've never gotten bitter about where I was at in my career. I've always earned enough money to put my kids through school and eat and all that, so I was never one of those guys who said, "Why am I not in this other position? Why am I not that other guy? Why am I me?" Josh Brolin guykidsschool At least George W. Bush feels like - and I've heard him say it - "You can't judge me now, because look at Abraham Lincoln. When he was in the middle of that war and 600,000 people died, he was vilified for the Gettysburg Address because they felt it was too short and almost insulting, and now you look back and it's considered one of the great speeches of all time and he's considered one of the great presidents of all time." Josh Brolin judgingwarpeople We talked to Sergei Bodrov who did "Mongel" who I thought was incredible. There was a lot of people who've done a lot of things that I really appreciate and then you go back to the Italian spaghetti westerns that our spaghetti westerns were based off of so I've seen everything. Josh Brolin appreciateitalianpeople I read comic books and stuff but I didn't know a lot about it. Josh Brolin comicstuffbook You've got this guy who refuses to die for some reason whether it be a physical or metaphysical reason or spiritual reason so you can do anything. You can kill off anybody and you can still bring them back because he's kind of half there and half in reality, you know? Josh Brolin guyspiritualreality There's always been violence in movies, and there will always be violence in movies. Whether it lends to the one psychotic that's out there, thinking the worst thoughts you could possibly thing, is always going to be a mystery. Josh Brolin mysteryviolencethinking I don't have a favorite I like and then I'll go and watch "Days of Heaven" and I go how beautiful is that. So I think, at least my idea, was lets bring something again that's primitive and guttural but then let's also do something beautiful where you're outside and this isn't a typical western setting. It's lush. It's green. It's beautiful. Josh Brolin beautifulideasthinking Back then they had Elvis and they thought Elvis was so risqué. So everyone has their perception to what innocence is. Josh Brolin innocenceperception I love the whole of California, I have places... my whole thing is with all the money I make, I just want to buy as many places in California as I can because I love it. Josh Brolin californiawholewant I'm very happy to be involved with great filmmakers. Josh Brolin great-filmvery-happyfilmmaker
