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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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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
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Beverly Hills
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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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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 think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.
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I like movies about failing.
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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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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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Twitter is the Devil's playground.
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I've never been disappointed, because I've never given somebody I liked that much power.
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I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.
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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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I don't know that I can define fear. But one of the sources of fear is holding up some sort of model life that doesn't exist and feeling like you're far away from it.
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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 always felt like I work in a small little area that doesn't represent anything like the rest of society.
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I'm not Elvis. I don't get chased by paparazzi.
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When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.
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Movies are an expensive business.
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I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that I've always done 'less is more.'
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The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable.
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Donald Trump announces this morning that he will run for president. His hair will announce on Friday.
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What naturally stops you making the film is there is no more money in the budget. That's really what it is. If you had an unlimited budget, if you were a billionaire and you financed your own movies, then you can either date, because you can sit in an editing room for six years, like Howard Hughes, and never finish anything.
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