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I don't experience basic human emotions. It's not my thing.
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
Albert Lawrence Einstein
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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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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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When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue. But it didn't really translate into careers for any of them, because the external is the easy part.
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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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Nobody will leave any place unless they're forced out. That's the nature of humans. Once you're there, you're there. I've never seen anybody get up voluntarily and leave any place.
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Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender.
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If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.
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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'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.
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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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Your spouse should be just attractive enough to turn you on. Anything more is trouble.
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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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The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable.
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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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Donald Trump announces this morning that he will run for president. His hair will announce on Friday.
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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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You can equate acting to a tennis game: When you're playing one of the best, you get better.
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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 take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.
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Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?
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