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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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You always got to be happy when somebody likes what you do. It's stupid not to be happy.
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I'm not Elvis. I don't get chased by paparazzi.
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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 can't not put humor in a book.
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A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts!
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In the beginning of any career, in every job, people are always forcing you to the middle.
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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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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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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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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 want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
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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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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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Regrets are stupid they don't mean anything and they don't add up to anything.
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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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When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.
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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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So I think if you're happy with your brain, you're powerful.
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Nothing surprises me. After Donald Trump, nothing matters, does it?
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Don't worry, and don't kick yourself forever. Just take the opportunities when they come.
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