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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
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Beverly Hills
California
Albert Lawrence Brooks
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So I think if you're happy with your brain, you're powerful.
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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 seen the future! It's a bald-headed man from New York!
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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've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didn't take off.
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Excited about Black Friday. Also excited about Jew Tuesday.
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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 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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All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.
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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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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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I can't not put humor in a book.
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There's always the standard six people you can hire that have played all these villains in Hollywood. Instinctively, when they come on screen, you know what's going to happen. You don't know the story, but you know what they do.
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Film is the cheapest part of the movie making process. The expense is the 100-man crew and the financing and everything.
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I've never been disappointed, because I've never given somebody I liked that much power.
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I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.
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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.
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I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.
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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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