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

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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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Writer
Beverly Hills
California
Albert Lawrence Brooks
Albert Lawrence Einstein
A. Brooks
Elvis
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Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie.
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The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable.
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Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.
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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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You always got to be happy when somebody likes what you do. It's stupid not to be happy.
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A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts!
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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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Acceptance is going to a restaurant where the salad's not great, but the steak is fine.
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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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'Drive' came to me because the casting director knew my manager and called and said, 'You've always talked to me about Albert wanting to play the heavy. I think he should read this.' My ears just perked up.
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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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I've seen the future! It's a bald-headed man from New York!
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Movies are an expensive business.
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I just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions.
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Starting to drink now in preparation for New Years. No more last minute stuff like Christmas.
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Don't worry, and don't kick yourself forever. Just take the opportunities when they come.
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I like movies about failing.
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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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I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.
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I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.
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