Adrien Brody — American Actor born on April 14, 1973,

Adrien Brody is an American actor. He received widespread recognition and acclaim after starring in Roman Polanski's The Pianist , for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor at age 29, making him the youngest actor to win in that category. Brody is also the only male American actor to receive the French César Award... (wikipedia)

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.
You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone.
I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.
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.
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.