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Starting to drink now in preparation for New Years. No more last minute stuff like Christmas.

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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
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Beverly Hills
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I'm not Elvis. I don't get chased by paparazzi.
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I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.
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If anything happens to me, tell every woman I've ever gone with I was talking about her at the end. That way, they'll have to reevaluate me.
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If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.
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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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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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I just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions.
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I can't not put humor in a book.
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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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Excited about Black Friday. Also excited about Jew Tuesday.
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If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.
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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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If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
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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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Well, you know, with every character, if you're going to expose yourself, you've got to figure out every detail that you're going to play. So there's no character that you can just go put on his shirt and be fully prepared.
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I've never been disappointed, because I've never given somebody I liked that much power.
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Being a screenwriter in Hollywood is like being a eunuch at an orgy. Worse, actually, at least the eunuch is allowed to watch.
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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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A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts!
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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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