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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
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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, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.
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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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Twitter is the Devil's playground.
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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 was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.
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Relaxation is the absence of worry.
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Your spouse should be just attractive enough to turn you on. Anything more is trouble.
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Well, you know, with every character, if you're going to expose yourself, you've got to figure out every detail that you're going to play. So there's no character that you can just go put on his shirt and be fully prepared.
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I've never been disappointed, because I've never given somebody I liked that much power.
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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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I like movies about failing.
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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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I've seen the future! It's a bald-headed man from New York!
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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 guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a better L.A. movie about a certain period in L.A.? That was terrific.
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Excited about Black Friday. Also excited about Jew Tuesday.
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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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My mother was supportive without knowing it. Deep down she wanted all the right things, she just didn't see the world like I did, and she's not supposed to.
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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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