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I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.

Albert Brooks

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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
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Beverly Hills
California
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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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I don't know that I can define fear. But one of the sources of fear is holding up some sort of model life that doesn't exist and feeling like you're far away from it.
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Relaxation is the absence of worry.
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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 don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.
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My mother was supportive without knowing it. Deep down she wanted all the right things, she just didn't see the world like I did, and she's not supposed to.
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I like movies about failing.
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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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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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It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not.
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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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I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didn't take off.
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There's nothing funny about flying to Houston.
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I take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.
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I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.
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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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When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue. But it didn't really translate into careers for any of them, because the external is the easy part.
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Regrets are stupid they don't mean anything and they don't add up to anything.
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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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