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Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.

Albert Brooks

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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
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Beverly Hills
California
Albert Lawrence Brooks
Albert Lawrence Einstein
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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'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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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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I've seen the future! It's a bald-headed man from New York!
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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 come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'
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For the most part, improvising while cameras are rolling is very difficult. 99% of people you should never ask to do that, because they're under pressure, the clock is running, 80 people are staring at you...it's always unnatural.
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Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender.
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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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If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
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Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?
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If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.
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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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I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.
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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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Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'
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I cast unusual people in my movies.
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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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So I think if you're happy with your brain, you're powerful.
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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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