Adrian Grenier Quotes

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Adrian Grenier

Profession : Actor

Birth : July 10, 1976

We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives.

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My family is mostly a chosen one. I've managed to invite some really amazing people into my life and they become family. Brothers, sisters, siblings, mentors, role models. And I like to live that way, where your family bleeds out into the larger community.

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Success is knowing that your contribution is what helps the collective.

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I have always chosen roles that I believed in - not ones that I thought might further my career.

Adrian Grenier

I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing.

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It's really important to find a humble approach to your own creative work, your own business work. To recognize that you can't do everything yourself.

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My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.

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I want to show people that environmentalism can be fun!

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I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die.

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Certainly, if it had been anything other than an HBO show I'd probably still be in Mexico now with a Mexican wife and kids.

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Because when you go out, and you have fun, basically you're performing for these tabloid outlets and the paparazzi. And when you perform and create this story, they're chuffed - they get excited, they capture it, and they put it out.

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You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there.

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I have a bunch of concepts and ideas that I want to do but I have also been growing my production company in general and looking to branch out of projects that I am directing and producing.

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I don't shop. I haven't shopped in about four years.

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I think, in a lot of ways, celebrities represent the American dream. They have financial fluidity and options at their disposal.

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I think we need to recognize that learning is a lifelong goal, a lifelong experience.

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I don't need success, I just need to be constantly evolving.

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Being performers, that's what we do: We put on shows and want people to watch.

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Well, obviously I'm not Mark Wahlberg - I have much better abs and I look much better in a pair of Calvin Kleins but when I saw Mark Wahlberg interacting with the world, I realised that his stardom was sort of a result of the movies he had done and the publicity that he had got and the work that he did.

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Not to say that you shouldn't strive for success, but don't forget why you're doing it. It's not just for adoration.

Adrian Grenier