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Don't worry, and don't kick yourself forever. Just take the opportunities when they come.

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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
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Beverly Hills
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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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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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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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I have children. I have a family to support. But I really could live in a one-room apartment, as long as the television worked. I never needed anything. Just a comfortable chair and I'm fine.
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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 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.
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Starting to drink now in preparation for New Years. No more last minute stuff like Christmas.
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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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I cast unusual people in my movies.
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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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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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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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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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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'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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Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.
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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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It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.
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If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.
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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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