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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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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
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Beverly Hills
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Albert Lawrence Brooks
Albert Lawrence Einstein
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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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You make friends with older people and you always feel young no matter what.
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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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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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