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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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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
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I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?'
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Donald Trump announces this morning that he will run for president. His hair will announce on Friday.
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Nothing surprises me. After Donald Trump, nothing matters, does it?
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What naturally stops you making the film is there is no more money in the budget. That's really what it is. If you had an unlimited budget, if you were a billionaire and you financed your own movies, then you can either date, because you can sit in an editing room for six years, like Howard Hughes, and never finish anything.
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There's always the standard six people you can hire that have played all these villains in Hollywood. Instinctively, when they come on screen, you know what's going to happen. You don't know the story, but you know what they do.
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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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Regrets are stupid they don't mean anything and they don't add up to anything.
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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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I've never been disappointed, because I've never given somebody I liked that much power.
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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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If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.
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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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Being a screenwriter in Hollywood is like being a eunuch at an orgy. Worse, actually, at least the eunuch is allowed to watch.
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I cast unusual people in my movies.
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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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When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.
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Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.
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