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Nothing surprises me. After Donald Trump, nothing matters, does it?

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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
Actor
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Beverly Hills
California
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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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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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If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.
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If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.
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You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.
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My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.
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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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I don't want to get close to people who have secrets that I don't know about.
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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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The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable.
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I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.
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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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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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Movies are an expensive business.
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I take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.
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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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Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.
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I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.
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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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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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