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

Albert Brooks

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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
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Beverly Hills
California
Albert Lawrence Brooks
Albert Lawrence Einstein
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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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Acceptance is going to a restaurant where the salad's not great, but the steak is fine.
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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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Your spouse should be just attractive enough to turn you on. Anything more is trouble.
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I like movies about failing.
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I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.
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You never do a movie and not want it to work. You accept whatever it is. You have to, but nobody in their right mind would not want the movie to be getting talked about at the end of the year.
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Well, you know, with every character, if you're going to expose yourself, you've got to figure out every detail that you're going to play. So there's no character that you can just go put on his shirt and be fully prepared.
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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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You know, when cameras are rolling, improvisation doesn't feel natural. The pressure is too great. You're on a time schedule. You've got 60 crewmen.
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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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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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I can't not put humor in a book.
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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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I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.
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Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?
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A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts!
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I never wanted to be a director.
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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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