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If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

Albert Brooks

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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
Actor
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Beverly Hills
California
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In the beginning of any career, in every job, people are always forcing you to the middle.
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There's nothing funny about flying to Houston.
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Excited about Black Friday. Also excited about Jew Tuesday.
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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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So I think if you're happy with your brain, you're powerful.
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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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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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'Drive' came to me because the casting director knew my manager and called and said, 'You've always talked to me about Albert wanting to play the heavy. I think he should read this.' My ears just perked up.
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Your spouse should be just attractive enough to turn you on. Anything more is trouble.
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Well, you know, with every character, if you're going to expose yourself, you've got to figure out every detail that you're going to play. So there's no character that you can just go put on his shirt and be fully prepared.
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If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.
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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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A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts!
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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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I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.
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I've never been disappointed, because I've never given somebody I liked that much power.
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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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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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Regrets are stupid they don't mean anything and they don't add up to anything.
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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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