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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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I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.
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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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You can equate acting to a tennis game: When you're playing one of the best, you get better.
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Relaxation is the absence of worry.
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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 you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.
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The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable.
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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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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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You know, when cameras are rolling, improvisation doesn't feel natural. The pressure is too great. You're on a time schedule. You've got 60 crewmen.
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You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.
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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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In the beginning of any career, in every job, people are always forcing you to the middle.
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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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Your spouse should be just attractive enough to turn you on. Anything more is trouble.
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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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I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'
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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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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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I just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions.
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