Adam Brody

My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.

I'm a fake intellectual.

I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.

I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.

It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?

It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.

There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.

Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows.

I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.

Really, as long as I am working and have diversity, I am happy.

I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.

I like an interesting movie even if it's controversial or offensive, depending on your taste.

I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.

I have a pretty lousy voice.

Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while.

I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.

I like to always have humour in whatever I do.