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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
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Television Actor
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Beverly Hills
California
Albert Lawrence Brooks
Albert Lawrence Einstein
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Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It wont be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it.
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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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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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'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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I'm not Elvis. I don't get chased by paparazzi.
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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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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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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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Film is the cheapest part of the movie making process. The expense is the 100-man crew and the financing and everything.
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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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Someone asked me what do you think of Donald Trump? And I said, I would rather vote for Hillary Clinton in jail. If she gets convicted, I'll vote for her for president.
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Donald Trump announces this morning that he will run for president. His hair will announce on Friday.
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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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I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.
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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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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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I don't want to get close to people who have secrets that I don't know about.
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You can equate acting to a tennis game: When you're playing one of the best, you get better.
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What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.
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