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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
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Twitter is the Devil's playground.
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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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If I'm going to act in someone's movie, I want the movie to be interesting and be able to get a couple of solid doubles.
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So I think if you're happy with your brain, you're powerful.
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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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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 don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?'
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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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Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It wont be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it.
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I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.
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The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable.
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When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.
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Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie.
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Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'
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I take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.
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When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.
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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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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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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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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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