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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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You make friends with older people and you always feel young no matter what.
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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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Starting to drink now in preparation for New Years. No more last minute stuff like Christmas.
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Don't worry, and don't kick yourself forever. Just take the opportunities when they come.
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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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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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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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You know, when cameras are rolling, improvisation doesn't feel natural. The pressure is too great. You're on a time schedule. You've got 60 crewmen.
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My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.
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One of the things I like about a character: I always think it's fascinating when a character can turn on a dime and go from one emotion to another. I like watching that.
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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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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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I never wanted to be a director.
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Fear is like a giant fog. It sits on your brain and blocks everything - real feelings, true happiness, real joy. They can't get through that fog. But you lift it, and buddy, you're in for the ride of your life.
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Excited about Black Friday. Also excited about Jew Tuesday.
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I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.
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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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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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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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Relaxation is the absence of worry.
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