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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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Regrets are stupid they don't mean anything and they don't add up to anything.
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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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Nothing surprises me. After Donald Trump, nothing matters, does it?
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Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.
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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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I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.
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