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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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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
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Albert Lawrence Brooks
Albert Lawrence Einstein
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The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable.
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I never wanted to be a director.
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Nobody will leave any place unless they're forced out. That's the nature of humans. Once you're there, you're there. I've never seen anybody get up voluntarily and leave any place.
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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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I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.
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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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Don't worry, and don't kick yourself forever. Just take the opportunities when they come.
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It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.
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