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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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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
Actor
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Beverly Hills
California
Albert Lawrence Brooks
Albert Lawrence Einstein
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Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made him eat at four o'clock. He liked to direct it. But, to me, directing is tedious. Especially if you're acting in it. And I'm inherently lazy.
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Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender.
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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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Acceptance is going to a restaurant where the salad's not great, but the steak is fine.
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I can't not put humor in a book.
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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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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 can equate acting to a tennis game: When you're playing one of the best, you get better.
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Nobody will leave any place unless they're forced out. That's the nature of humans. Once you're there, you're there. I've never seen anybody get up voluntarily and leave any place.
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One of the things I like about a character: I always think it's fascinating when a character can turn on a dime and go from one emotion to another. I like watching that.
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I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.
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Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.
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If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
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There's nothing funny about flying to Houston.
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Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie.
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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 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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You know, when cameras are rolling, improvisation doesn't feel natural. The pressure is too great. You're on a time schedule. You've got 60 crewmen.
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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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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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