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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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Beverly Hills
California
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In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them.
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I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.
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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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If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.
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I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.
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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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I've never been disappointed, because I've never given somebody I liked that much power.
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What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.
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If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.
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I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'
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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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You always got to be happy when somebody likes what you do. It's stupid not to be happy.
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There's nothing funny about flying to Houston.
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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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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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What naturally stops you making the film is there is no more money in the budget. That's really what it is. If you had an unlimited budget, if you were a billionaire and you financed your own movies, then you can either date, because you can sit in an editing room for six years, like Howard Hughes, and never finish anything.
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Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'
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How many people didn't get a part who would have been better than the person who got the part? Thousands.
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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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Donald Trump announces this morning that he will run for president. His hair will announce on Friday.
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