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The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable.

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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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You always got to be happy when somebody likes what you do. It's stupid not to be happy.
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Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.
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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 just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions.
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Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.
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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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You make friends with older people and you always feel young no matter what.
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I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.
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Relaxation is the absence of worry.
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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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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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Nothing surprises me. After Donald Trump, nothing matters, does it?
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If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to 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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Fear is like a giant fog. It sits on your brain and blocks everything - real feelings, true happiness, real joy. They can't get through that fog. But you lift it, and buddy, you're in for the ride of your life.
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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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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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Acceptance is going to a restaurant where the salad's not great, but the steak is fine.
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