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I cast unusual people in my movies.

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
Albert Lawrence Einstein
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Starting to drink now in preparation for New Years. No more last minute stuff like Christmas.
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I don't experience basic human emotions. It's not my thing.
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So I think if you're happy with your brain, you're powerful.
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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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As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.
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Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?
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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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Acceptance is going to a restaurant where the salad's not great, but the steak is fine.
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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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I have children. I have a family to support. But I really could live in a one-room apartment, as long as the television worked. I never needed anything. Just a comfortable chair and I'm fine.
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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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I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.
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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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When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue. But it didn't really translate into careers for any of them, because the external is the easy part.
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Relaxation is the absence of worry.
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I don't know that I can define fear. But one of the sources of fear is holding up some sort of model life that doesn't exist and feeling like you're far away from it.
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If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
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I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.
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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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