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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
California
Albert Lawrence Brooks
Albert Lawrence Einstein
A. Brooks
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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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Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender.
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Nothing surprises me. After Donald Trump, nothing matters, does it?
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I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.
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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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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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Excited about Black Friday. Also excited about Jew Tuesday.
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Acceptance is going to a restaurant where the salad's not great, but the steak is fine.
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I've seen the future! It's a bald-headed man from New York!
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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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For the most part, improvising while cameras are rolling is very difficult. 99% of people you should never ask to do that, because they're under pressure, the clock is running, 80 people are staring at you...it's always unnatural.
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The world really changed after 9/11, not just in the tragic way, but in every way. So it took me a couple of years to even understand how my art form I could process any of this. When the world changed, eliciting laughter with subjects that were funny to me before 9/11 just didnt seem good enough.
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If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.
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As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.
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If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.
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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 take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.
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Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.
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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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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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