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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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Beverly Hills
California
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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 liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.
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For the most part, improvising while cameras are rolling is very difficult. 99% of people you should never ask to do that, because they're under pressure, the clock is running, 80 people are staring at you...it's always unnatural.
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I got so good at writing to a budget, my brain was restricting myself. I'd write, It's a stormy night. Then I'd cross out stormy. I'd write: It's a calm night. Then I'd cross out night. It's noon. Because you know how much night costs. You know how much rain costs. Nothing comes free in movies.
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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 come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'
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I've seen the future! It's a bald-headed man from New York!
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When I audition, I understand what it takes and the insecurities that come with it. If I do anything, I put actors at ease. I used to tell directors who weren't actors, the best thing they could do was take an acting class for a couple of months. Just to understand.
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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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I just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions.
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As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.
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When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue. But it didn't really translate into careers for any of them, because the external is the easy part.
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You make friends with older people and you always feel young no matter what.
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Regrets are stupid they don't mean anything and they don't add up to anything.
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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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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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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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How many people didn't get a part who would have been better than the person who got the part? Thousands.
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Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.
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