Bryan Brown
Bryan Brown
Bryan Neathway Brown, AMis an Australian actor. He has performed in over eighty film and television projects since the late 1970s, both in his native Australia and abroad. Notable films include Breaker Morant, Give My Regards to Broad Street, F/X, Cocktail, Gorillas in the Mist, F/X2, Along Came Polly, Australia, Kill Me Three Timesand Gods of Egypt. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award for his performance in the television miniseries The Thorn Birds...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth23 June 1947
CitySydney, Australia
CountryAustralia
That's because they took out everything that protected us.
Oh yeah. I'm always dancing on bars. I'm a bloke that loves a drink, and when you're just free and on the loose like we are on films - it happens.
It's new, exciting, anybody from 6 to 66 can do it. Unlike skiing or snowboarding, the learning curve is not as steep.
It is the most important project to come through I.V., ever. It is a significant project for a community like Isla Vista.
It's a different ball game these days, but you're never going to get rid of corruption as long as there's power and money.
Whether that's accurate I don't know. I never talked to Ripley.
When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I would never be able to make myself a person who could contribute. I wasn't interested in that society; I was interested in this society.
It costs a lot of money to release a movie. What you'd call art-house movies - movies that don't have big stars or big budgets - they're very hard for distributors to get behind 'em and take chances.
You know, I stumble about what I'm going to do. I don't plan. I've never had ambitions.
I'm a Sydney suburban boy shaped entirely by the western suburbs.
I wanted to be an actor, and when that day happened that was sort of like the end. Now let it take me.
Look, I've always been a confident bloke. I'm grateful to my mother for that.
Never tell tales about a woman. No matter how far away she is, shell always hear you.
I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer.