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'Drive' came to me because the casting director knew my manager and called and said, 'You've always talked to me about Albert wanting to play the heavy. I think he should read this.' My ears just perked up.
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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
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The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable.
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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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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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I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'
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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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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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I cast unusual people in my movies.
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Relaxation is the absence of worry.
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I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.
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If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
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I'm not Elvis. I don't get chased by paparazzi.
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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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Being a screenwriter in Hollywood is like being a eunuch at an orgy. Worse, actually, at least the eunuch is allowed to watch.
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I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.
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Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.
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Art and resistance are great together. That's what art's made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn't cut off his ear because he was selling well.
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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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Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?
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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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So I think if you're happy with your brain, you're powerful.
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