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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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Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.
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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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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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If anything happens to me, tell every woman I've ever gone with I was talking about her at the end. That way, they'll have to reevaluate me.
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In the beginning of any career, in every job, people are always forcing you to the middle.
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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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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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Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender.
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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've never been disappointed, because I've never given somebody I liked that much power.
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Nothing surprises me. After Donald Trump, nothing matters, does it?
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Excited about Black Friday. Also excited about Jew Tuesday.
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I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.
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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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Acceptance is going to a restaurant where the salad's not great, but the steak is fine.
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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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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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Regrets are stupid they don't mean anything and they don't add up to anything.
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I just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions.
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I cast unusual people in my movies.
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