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I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.

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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
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For the most part, improvising while cameras are rolling is very difficult. 99% of people you should never ask to do that, because they're under pressure, the clock is running, 80 people are staring at you...it's always unnatural.
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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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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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Acceptance is going to a restaurant where the salad's not great, but the steak is fine.
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When I audition, I understand what it takes and the insecurities that come with it. If I do anything, I put actors at ease. I used to tell directors who weren't actors, the best thing they could do was take an acting class for a couple of months. Just to understand.
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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 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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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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The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable.
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I can't not put humor in a book.
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Being a screenwriter in Hollywood is like being a eunuch at an orgy. Worse, actually, at least the eunuch is allowed to watch.
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Nothing surprises me. After Donald Trump, nothing matters, does it?
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It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not.
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Regrets are stupid they don't mean anything and they don't add up to anything.
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All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.
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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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I never wanted to be a director.
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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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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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Relaxation is the absence of worry.
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