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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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I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.
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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'm not a person who I ever thought would do well with divorce. Not that it can't happen. I just didn't want that. So I waited a long time to meet the right person. Then I finally met someone that I was willing to be divorced from.
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You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.
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Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.
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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've never been disappointed, because I've never given somebody I liked that much power.
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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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Relaxation is the absence of worry.
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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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Regrets are stupid they don't mean anything and they don't add up to anything.
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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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So I think if you're happy with your brain, you're powerful.
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If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
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If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.
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When I audition, I understand what it takes and the insecurities that come with it. If I do anything, I put actors at ease. I used to tell directors who weren't actors, the best thing they could do was take an acting class for a couple of months. Just to understand.
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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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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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Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?
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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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