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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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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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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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The world really changed after 9/11, not just in the tragic way, but in every way. So it took me a couple of years to even understand how my art form I could process any of this. When the world changed, eliciting laughter with subjects that were funny to me before 9/11 just didnt seem good enough.
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I can't not put humor in a book.
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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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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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Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.
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For the most part, improvising while cameras are rolling is very difficult. 99% of people you should never ask to do that, because they're under pressure, the clock is running, 80 people are staring at you...it's always unnatural.
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I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.
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How many people didn't get a part who would have been better than the person who got the part? Thousands.
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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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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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The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable.
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I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.
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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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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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Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It wont be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it.
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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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Relaxation is the absence of worry.
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If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.
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