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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.'
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
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Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.
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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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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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In the beginning of any career, in every job, people are always forcing you to the middle.
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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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You never do a movie and not want it to work. You accept whatever it is. You have to, but nobody in their right mind would not want the movie to be getting talked about at the end of the year.
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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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Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?
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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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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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If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
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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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Someone asked me what do you think of Donald Trump? And I said, I would rather vote for Hillary Clinton in jail. If she gets convicted, I'll vote for her for president.
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I've seen the future! It's a bald-headed man from New York!
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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'm a big consumer of news and I have my six newspaper sites booked. And what I like bout Twitter is it's almost, it allows me to make a comment about something that's just on my mind.
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When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.
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Film is the cheapest part of the movie making process. The expense is the 100-man crew and the financing and everything.
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If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.
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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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