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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.
Albert Brooks
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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
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The world really changed after 9/11, not just in the tragic way, but in every way. So it took me a couple of years to even understand how my art form I could process any of this. When the world changed, eliciting laughter with subjects that were funny to me before 9/11 just didnt seem good enough.
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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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Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender.
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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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If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
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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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I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.
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I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.
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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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Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made him eat at four o'clock. He liked to direct it. But, to me, directing is tedious. Especially if you're acting in it. And I'm inherently lazy.
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Art and resistance are great together. That's what art's made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn't cut off his ear because he was selling well.
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You always got to be happy when somebody likes what you do. It's stupid not to be happy.
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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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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 take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.
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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 don't want to get close to people who have secrets that I don't know about.
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