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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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I've seen the future! It's a bald-headed man from New York!
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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'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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If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.
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Starting to drink now in preparation for New Years. No more last minute stuff like Christmas.
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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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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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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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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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So I think if you're happy with your brain, you're powerful.
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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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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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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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