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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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Beverly Hills
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Albert Lawrence Brooks
Albert Lawrence Einstein
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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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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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Starting to drink now in preparation for New Years. No more last minute stuff like Christmas.
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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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Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie.
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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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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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My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.
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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 don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.
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I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.
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When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.
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If I'm going to act in someone's movie, I want the movie to be interesting and be able to get a couple of solid doubles.
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I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.
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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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I've never been disappointed, because I've never given somebody I liked that much power.
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