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

- Adam Brody

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.

- Adam Brody

I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.

- Adam Brody

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

- Adam Brody

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.

- Adam Brody

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

- Adam Brody

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.

- Adam Brody

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.

- Adam Brody

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.

- Adam Brody

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.

- Adam Brody

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

- Adam Brody

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

- Adam Brody

I'm a fake intellectual.

- Adam Brody

And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.

- Adam Brody

I like to always have humour in whatever I do.

- Adam Brody

I have a pretty lousy voice.

- Adam Brody

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

- Adam Brody

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

- Adam Brody

Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

- Adam Brody

I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.

- Adam Brody