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I take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.

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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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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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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I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.
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Nothing surprises me. After Donald Trump, nothing matters, does it?
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Your spouse should be just attractive enough to turn you on. Anything more is trouble.
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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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Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.
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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 seen the future! It's a bald-headed man from New York!
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Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.
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I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.
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Don't worry, and don't kick yourself forever. Just take the opportunities when they come.
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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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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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How many people didn't get a part who would have been better than the person who got the part? Thousands.
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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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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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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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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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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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