Albert Brooks Quotes
I like the acting. It's how I started, and I sort of feel that if I don't give it a little shot now, and I go back, then I'm pretty much done with it. I mean, at what age am I going to do it at? Although, when you see Christopher Plummer and Max von Sydow doing it, I guess the answer is 80.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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I have worked with some great directors.
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
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I can tell you that my family in the absolute worst of times has seen the absolute best in people. And, that has given us more strength than could ever imagine.
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I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.
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I come up with a lot of ideas, and I want to start them all.
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Leslie Nielsen was my favorite growing up; getting to work with him was amazing.
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By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.
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I don't think that youth should be glorified.
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The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.
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I like the acting. It's how I started, and I sort of feel that if I don't give it a little shot now, and I go back, then I'm pretty much done with it. I mean, at what age am I going to do it at? Although, when you see Christopher Plummer and Max von Sydow doing it, I guess the answer is 80.
