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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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When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.
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Your spouse should be just attractive enough to turn you on. Anything more is trouble.
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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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If anything happens to me, tell every woman I've ever gone with I was talking about her at the end. That way, they'll have to reevaluate me.
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I have children. I have a family to support. But I really could live in a one-room apartment, as long as the television worked. I never needed anything. Just a comfortable chair and I'm fine.
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I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that I've always done 'less is more.'
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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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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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'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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I've always felt like I work in a small little area that doesn't represent anything like the rest of society.
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I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.
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I like movies about failing.
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Twitter is the Devil's playground.
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The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable.
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Starting to drink now in preparation for New Years. No more last minute stuff like Christmas.
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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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If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
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I've never been disappointed, because I've never given somebody I liked that much power.
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Art and resistance are great together. That's what art's made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn't cut off his ear because he was selling well.
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