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My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.
Adrien Brody
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Adrien Brody
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: April 14
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Woodhaven
Nova York
Adrien Nicholas Brody
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