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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.

Albert Brooks

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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
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I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.
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Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie.
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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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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've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.
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I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.
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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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I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.
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There's nothing funny about flying to Houston.
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I'm not Elvis. I don't get chased by paparazzi.
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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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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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If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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I just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions.
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