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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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