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There's nothing funny about flying to Houston.
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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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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I got so good at writing to a budget, my brain was restricting myself. I'd write, It's a stormy night. Then I'd cross out stormy. I'd write: It's a calm night. Then I'd cross out night. It's noon. Because you know how much night costs. You know how much rain costs. Nothing comes free in movies.
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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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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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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'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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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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Excited about Black Friday. Also excited about Jew Tuesday.
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Film is the cheapest part of the movie making process. The expense is the 100-man crew and the financing and everything.
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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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Acceptance is going to a restaurant where the salad's not great, but the steak is fine.
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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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I can't not put humor in a book.
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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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You always got to be happy when somebody likes what you do. It's stupid not to be happy.
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I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.
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Art and resistance are great together. That's what art's made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn't cut off his ear because he was selling well.
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I cast unusual people in my movies.
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I've always felt like I work in a small little area that doesn't represent anything like the rest of society.
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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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