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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
California
Albert Lawrence Brooks
Albert Lawrence Einstein
A. Brooks
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If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
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When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.
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Nobody will leave any place unless they're forced out. That's the nature of humans. Once you're there, you're there. I've never seen anybody get up voluntarily and leave any place.
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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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I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.
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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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If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.
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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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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 want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.
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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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Regrets are stupid they don't mean anything and they don't add up to anything.
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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.
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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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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'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 can't not put humor in a book.
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As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.
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I don't want to get close to people who have secrets that I don't know about.
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I'm a big consumer of news and I have my six newspaper sites booked. And what I like bout Twitter is it's almost, it allows me to make a comment about something that's just on my mind.
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