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I've never been disappointed, because I've never given somebody I liked that much power.
Albert Brooks
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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
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Beverly Hills
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Albert Lawrence Brooks
Albert Lawrence Einstein
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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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Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.
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I cast unusual people in my movies.
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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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My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.
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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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A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts!
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I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.
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It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not.
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If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
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Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.
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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'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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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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Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender.
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You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.
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Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?
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