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How many people didn't get a part who would have been better than the person who got the part? Thousands.
Albert Brooks
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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
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Beverly Hills
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Albert Lawrence Brooks
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Regrets are stupid they don't mean anything and they don't add up to anything.
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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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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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Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?
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I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that I've always done 'less is more.'
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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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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 don't want to get close to people who have secrets that I don't know about.
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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 never been disappointed, because I've never given somebody I liked that much power.
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I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.
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