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It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not.
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
A. Brooks
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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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I've seen the future! It's a bald-headed man from New York!
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All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.
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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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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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I'm not a person who I ever thought would do well with divorce. Not that it can't happen. I just didn't want that. So I waited a long time to meet the right person. Then I finally met someone that I was willing to be divorced from.
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There's always the standard six people you can hire that have played all these villains in Hollywood. Instinctively, when they come on screen, you know what's going to happen. You don't know the story, but you know what they do.
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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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Twitter is the Devil's playground.
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I can't not put humor in a book.
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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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Nothing surprises me. After Donald Trump, nothing matters, does it?
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I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.
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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 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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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 take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.
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Excited about Black Friday. Also excited about Jew Tuesday.
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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've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.
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