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I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?'
Albert Brooks
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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
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Beverly Hills
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Albert Lawrence Brooks
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Nobody will leave any place unless they're forced out. That's the nature of humans. Once you're there, you're there. I've never seen anybody get up voluntarily and leave any place.
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It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.
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So I think if you're happy with your brain, you're powerful.
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I have children. I have a family to support. But I really could live in a one-room apartment, as long as the television worked. I never needed anything. Just a comfortable chair and I'm fine.
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Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It wont be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it.
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If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.
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Relaxation is the absence of worry.
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Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.
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If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
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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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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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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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The world really changed after 9/11, not just in the tragic way, but in every way. So it took me a couple of years to even understand how my art form I could process any of this. When the world changed, eliciting laughter with subjects that were funny to me before 9/11 just didnt seem good enough.
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I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'
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All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.
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Excited about Black Friday. Also excited about Jew Tuesday.
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Regrets are stupid they don't mean anything and they don't add up to anything.
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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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If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.
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