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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
Actor
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Film Actor
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Woodhaven
Nova York
Adrien Nicholas Brody
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It's great when people appreciate your work, but I don't know how seriously to take it. The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing, and that can even be extremely lucrative, but I love it either way.
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I always had an actor within me.
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The normal routine is always the same thing whether it's on a new movie or a new job - there's always a process of getting to know one another. I think part of what makes movies special is that it is a relatively intimate environment and it's pretty short-lived - you get to know one another very quickly.
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There are the obstacles of your position as an actor, not being a commodity enough to be hired by the big directors for projects that have some kind of integrity, because the successful actors who've been in the game for a while want those roles. So there's more competition, so you have to work harder and be right for it.
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I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.
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It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before.
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Part of what attracted me to the village was it had a lot of parallels to contemporary issues. Like, fear and the way fear controls us. How the governing body of a town, or a nation, controls us through fear. They might mean well by it, but we are conditioned to be afraid of things. Fear of the unknown. Fear of terrorism. And it's unfortunate.
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I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition.
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