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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.

Albert Brooks

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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
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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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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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If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.
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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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Well, you know, with every character, if you're going to expose yourself, you've got to figure out every detail that you're going to play. So there's no character that you can just go put on his shirt and be fully prepared.
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If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.
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I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.
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Excited about Black Friday. Also excited about Jew Tuesday.
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Don't worry, and don't kick yourself forever. Just take the opportunities when they come.
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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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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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A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts!
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I don't experience basic human emotions. It's not my thing.
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Fear is like a giant fog. It sits on your brain and blocks everything - real feelings, true happiness, real joy. They can't get through that fog. But you lift it, and buddy, you're in for the ride of your life.
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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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Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?
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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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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 nothing funny about flying to Houston.
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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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