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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
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Beverly Hills
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Albert Lawrence Brooks
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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 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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I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.
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What naturally stops you making the film is there is no more money in the budget. That's really what it is. If you had an unlimited budget, if you were a billionaire and you financed your own movies, then you can either date, because you can sit in an editing room for six years, like Howard Hughes, and never finish anything.
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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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Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.
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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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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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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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There's nothing funny about flying to Houston.
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Twitter is the Devil's playground.
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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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You can equate acting to a tennis game: When you're playing one of the best, you get better.
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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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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, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.
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I take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.
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I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.
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