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I never wanted to be a director.

Albert Brooks

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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Screenwriter
Television Actor
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Beverly Hills
California
Albert Lawrence Brooks
Albert Lawrence Einstein
A. Brooks
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You make friends with older people and you always feel young no matter what.
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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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Regrets are stupid they don't mean anything and they don't add up to anything.
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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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I've never been disappointed, because I've never given somebody I liked that much power.
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