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I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.

Albert Brooks

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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
Actor
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Beverly Hills
California
Albert Lawrence Brooks
Albert Lawrence Einstein
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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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If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.
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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 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, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.
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I never wanted to be a director.
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If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.
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Twitter is the Devil's playground.
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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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Regrets are stupid they don't mean anything and they don't add up to anything.
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Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'
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Your spouse should be just attractive enough to turn you on. Anything more is trouble.
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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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I'm not Elvis. I don't get chased by paparazzi.
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If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.
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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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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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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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What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.
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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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