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Albert Brooks Inspirational Quotes (97)

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How many people didn't get a part who would have been better than the person who got the part? Thousands.
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I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.
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What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.
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Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.
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Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender.
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I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.
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If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.
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I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.
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You can equate acting to a tennis game: When you're playing one of the best, you get better.
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I'm not a person who I ever thought would do well with divorce. Not that it can't happen. I just didn't want that. So I waited a long time to meet the right person. Then I finally met someone that I was willing to be divorced from.
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If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
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If anything happens to me, tell every woman I've ever gone with I was talking about her at the end. That way, they'll have to reevaluate me.
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I'm not Elvis. I don't get chased by paparazzi.
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So I think if you're happy with your brain, you're powerful.
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I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that I've always done 'less is more.'
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In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them.
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If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.
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I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.
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I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.
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Twitter is the Devil's playground.
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Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'
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Well, you know, with every character, if you're going to expose yourself, you've got to figure out every detail that you're going to play. So there's no character that you can just go put on his shirt and be fully prepared.
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I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.
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Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made him eat at four o'clock. He liked to direct it. But, to me, directing is tedious. Especially if you're acting in it. And I'm inherently lazy.
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