Adrian Grenier Quotes

We have a lot to learn from everyone.

I think in the old music, everything was so competitive. It was all about - very selfish in a lot of ways.

Happiness doesn't come from commercial success but from the quality of work that you give back to your immediate community.

I've been given the opportunity to be alive in this day and age, and it's rare.

I'm a self-taught musician, so I never really had the restrictions of any one instrument. I would always just sort of pick up instruments and make noise with 'em.

The problem with modern consumption and mass-produced products is they're designed to just literally be shoved into our mouths and rushed.

I'm sort of always trying to reinvent and recreate a better way of being, because, you know, democracy has been "the worst of all political systems except for all the rest." So I think we have a lot of room to grow and be a better society, and it's a constant battle. It's an exciting opportunity to be active.

I enjoy pumping iron, but I do try and get the yoga, 'cause it's a nice balance to the weightlifting.

I was rebellious.

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

I can't tell you what your purpose is, that's got to come from you.

The future of cinema and communications is all about collaboration and the decentralized control of storytelling. We're all part of the story; we can all contribute and participate.

Tabloids can be fun. I see stuff sometimes and have a good laugh.

I'm a filmmaker, I'm a storyteller, an entertainer, if you will, so what can I do to participate? Well, I'm not a scientist; I'm not an expert on environmental law; I'm a guy that can tell stories. So I always look for a way to communicate ideas and help to spread excitement for change.

Ethical systems and practices need to look good. They have to be desirable, well-designed and work well.

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

There's never a better way of living than just improving our quality of life.

You can't expect people to do the right thing or else they will go to hell. We are already in hell!

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

It's what we live for, to be able to make great illusions. The thing about 'Entourage' is everything we do is realistic. We go to the real places, we shoot on location. We get the real people. It's a perfect marriage between fact and fiction.

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.

Food is just the greatest joy on the planet.

I can play a lot of things, but I haven't mastered any one. I use music really as a form of raw expression; escape from the real world.

Let's show people how desirable it is to step it up and climb towards heaven.

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.

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.

In narrative films, you set up reality, so you can limit the variables. You don't have that luxury with docs.

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.

Secondly, love and relationships are complicated. No one could ever get it right in a four-line sentence.

I've always been a very rebellious, philosophical person, so my mother set the foundation for my appreciation for nature and my empathy for other people. But then, being a sort of rebellious, philosophical thinker, I'm always looking for new ways to shake things up. So I feel like I'm really lucky to be alive in a time where there's so much opportunity to disrupt and shake it up. It's sort of a combination between that and having the foundation that my mother gave me.

Maybe the idea of being a rockstar or being the one who's recording or playing, sort of doesn't really matter as much anymore, when you're surrounded by great musicians who bring their spirit, their own talent.

When I feel myself getting overwhelmed, I take a deep breath and eat a piece of chocolate.

I think you can find a lot of joy and inspiration through food. I think when you find depression and sadness and hopelessness, many times it's connected to certain food and access to quality and nutrition.

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.

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.

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.

I am not an artist except that when I envision a concept, I sometimes indulge it.

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.

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.

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.

As great as technology is, it still has it's limitations, because it's only a frame of the truth

The problem to me with environmentalism is the idea that we're all gonna die and we need to save ourselves. I don't think it's necessarily the right way to go about it, because I think we need to really just improve our every moment and improve our quality of life. And that will, sort of by default, save us.

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

That's what we do on 'Entourage.' We embed ourselves in legitimate authentic moments so wherever the action is happening, we're taking pieces from that red carpet.

I don't like putting people on a pedestal, I think ideas are more exciting