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I can't not put humor in a book.

Albert Brooks

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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Writer
Beverly Hills
California
Albert Lawrence Brooks
Albert Lawrence Einstein
A. Brooks
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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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I'm not Elvis. I don't get chased by paparazzi.
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I've seen the future! It's a bald-headed man from New York!
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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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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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I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.
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Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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You always got to be happy when somebody likes what you do. It's stupid not to be happy.
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Nothing surprises me. After Donald Trump, nothing matters, does it?
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I don't experience basic human emotions. It's not my thing.
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