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I'm not Elvis. I don't get chased by paparazzi.

Albert Brooks

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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Screenwriter
Television Actor
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Beverly Hills
California
Albert Lawrence Brooks
Albert Lawrence Einstein
A. Brooks
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Excited about Black Friday. Also excited about Jew Tuesday.
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I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.
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As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.
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You always got to be happy when somebody likes what you do. It's stupid not to be happy.
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My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.
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Starting to drink now in preparation for New Years. No more last minute stuff like Christmas.
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Regrets are stupid they don't mean anything and they don't add up to anything.
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Fear is like a giant fog. It sits on your brain and blocks everything - real feelings, true happiness, real joy. They can't get through that fog. But you lift it, and buddy, you're in for the ride of your life.
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I've seen the future! It's a bald-headed man from New York!
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The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable.
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If I'm going to act in someone's movie, I want the movie to be interesting and be able to get a couple of solid doubles.
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When I audition, I understand what it takes and the insecurities that come with it. If I do anything, I put actors at ease. I used to tell directors who weren't actors, the best thing they could do was take an acting class for a couple of months. Just to understand.
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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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Art and resistance are great together. That's what art's made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn't cut off his ear because he was selling well.
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I cast unusual people in my movies.
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Acceptance is going to a restaurant where the salad's not great, but the steak is fine.
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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've always felt like I work in a small little area that doesn't represent anything like the rest of society.
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In the beginning of any career, in every job, people are always forcing you to the middle.
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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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