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I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.

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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
Actor
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Film Director
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Television Actor
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Beverly Hills
California
Albert Lawrence Brooks
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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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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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Don't worry, and don't kick yourself forever. Just take the opportunities when they come.
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My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.
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You never do a movie and not want it to work. You accept whatever it is. You have to, but nobody in their right mind would not want the movie to be getting talked about at the end of the year.
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I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didn't take off.
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You make friends with older people and you always feel young no matter what.
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If anything happens to me, tell every woman I've ever gone with I was talking about her at the end. That way, they'll have to reevaluate 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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In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them.
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If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.
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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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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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For the most part, improvising while cameras are rolling is very difficult. 99% of people you should never ask to do that, because they're under pressure, the clock is running, 80 people are staring at you...it's always unnatural.
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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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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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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 Elvis. I don't get chased by paparazzi.
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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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