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I like movies about failing.

Albert Brooks

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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
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Beverly Hills
California
Albert Lawrence Brooks
Albert Lawrence Einstein
A. Brooks
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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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When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.
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Well, you know, with every character, if you're going to expose yourself, you've got to figure out every detail that you're going to play. So there's no character that you can just go put on his shirt and be fully prepared.
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My mother was supportive without knowing it. Deep down she wanted all the right things, she just didn't see the world like I did, and she's not supposed to.
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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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Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.
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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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Your spouse should be just attractive enough to turn you on. Anything more is trouble.
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'Drive' came to me because the casting director knew my manager and called and said, 'You've always talked to me about Albert wanting to play the heavy. I think he should read this.' My ears just perked up.
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The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable.
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Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.
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I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.
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I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.
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A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts!
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Excited about Black Friday. Also excited about Jew Tuesday.
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I'm not a person who I ever thought would do well with divorce. Not that it can't happen. I just didn't want that. So I waited a long time to meet the right person. Then I finally met someone that I was willing to be divorced from.
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If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
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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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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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