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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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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Writer
Beverly Hills
California
Albert Lawrence Brooks
Albert Lawrence Einstein
A. Brooks
Doesn
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Occasionally
Twitter
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Tools
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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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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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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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Twitter is the Devil's playground.
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When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue. But it didn't really translate into careers for any of them, because the external is the easy part.
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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 don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.
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I just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions.
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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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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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Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.
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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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Donald Trump announces this morning that he will run for president. His hair will announce on Friday.
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I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didn't take off.
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I like movies about failing.
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Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?
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I've never been disappointed, because I've never given somebody I liked that much power.
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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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I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.
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Don't worry, and don't kick yourself forever. Just take the opportunities when they come.
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