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You always got to be happy when somebody likes what you do. It's stupid not to be happy.

Albert Brooks

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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
Actor
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Film Director
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Beverly Hills
California
Albert Lawrence Brooks
Albert Lawrence Einstein
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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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You make friends with older people and you always feel young no matter what.
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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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Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made him eat at four o'clock. He liked to direct it. But, to me, directing is tedious. Especially if you're acting in it. And I'm inherently lazy.
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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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In the beginning of any career, in every job, people are always forcing you to the middle.
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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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Excited about Black Friday. Also excited about Jew Tuesday.
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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 just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions.
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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'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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Twitter is the Devil's playground.
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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 die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.
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You can equate acting to a tennis game: When you're playing one of the best, you get better.
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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'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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So I think if you're happy with your brain, you're powerful.
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I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.
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