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You can equate acting to a tennis game: When you're playing one of the best, you get better.

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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
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Beverly Hills
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I never wanted to be a director.
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I've never been disappointed, because I've never given somebody I liked that much power.
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I'm not Elvis. I don't get chased by paparazzi.
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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 don't experience basic human emotions. It's not my thing.
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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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Excited about Black Friday. Also excited about Jew Tuesday.
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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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If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.
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Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?
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I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that I've always done 'less is more.'
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