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I've seen the future! It's a bald-headed man from New York!

Albert Brooks

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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
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Albert Lawrence Brooks
Albert Lawrence Einstein
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If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
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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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Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?
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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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I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.
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Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie.
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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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I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.
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Twitter is the Devil's playground.
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Someone asked me what do you think of Donald Trump? And I said, I would rather vote for Hillary Clinton in jail. If she gets convicted, I'll vote for her for president.
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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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Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made him eat at four o'clock. He liked to direct it. But, to me, directing is tedious. Especially if you're acting in it. And I'm inherently lazy.
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'Drive' came to me because the casting director knew my manager and called and said, 'You've always talked to me about Albert wanting to play the heavy. I think he should read this.' My ears just perked up.
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I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.
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I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.
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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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My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.
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You make friends with older people and you always feel young no matter what.
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I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that I've always done 'less is more.'
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Fear is like a giant fog. It sits on your brain and blocks everything - real feelings, true happiness, real joy. They can't get through that fog. But you lift it, and buddy, you're in for the ride of your life.
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