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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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The world really changed after 9/11, not just in the tragic way, but in every way. So it took me a couple of years to even understand how my art form I could process any of this. When the world changed, eliciting laughter with subjects that were funny to me before 9/11 just didnt seem good enough.
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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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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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I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.
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I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?'
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I got so good at writing to a budget, my brain was restricting myself. I'd write, It's a stormy night. Then I'd cross out stormy. I'd write: It's a calm night. Then I'd cross out night. It's noon. Because you know how much night costs. You know how much rain costs. Nothing comes free in movies.
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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 just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions.
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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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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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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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If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.
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Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.
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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 can't not put humor in a book.
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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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Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.
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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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I like movies about failing.
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Art and resistance are great together. That's what art's made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn't cut off his ear because he was selling well.
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