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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
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
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Beverly Hills
California
Albert Lawrence Brooks
Albert Lawrence Einstein
A. Brooks
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Houston
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I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'
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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'm a big consumer of news and I have my six newspaper sites booked. And what I like bout Twitter is it's almost, it allows me to make a comment about something that's just on my mind.
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I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about 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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If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
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I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.
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I have children. I have a family to support. But I really could live in a one-room apartment, as long as the television worked. I never needed anything. Just a comfortable chair and I'm fine.
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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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It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.
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A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts!
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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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