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You can equate acting to a tennis game: When you're playing one of the best, you get better.
Albert Brooks
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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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I've never been disappointed, because I've never given somebody I liked that much power.
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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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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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I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.
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