Albert Brooks Quotes
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If your last name is Christ, don't name your son Jesus.
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I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.
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Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but I've never worked on a movie, including my own, that didn't take advantage of a rehearsal process.
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Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.
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I'm a strong fellow.
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I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a better L.A. movie about a certain period in L.A.? That was terrific.
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There are a few giant companies that I love, and I love Amazon. Their customer service is impeccable: sometimes, just for the hell of it, I'll sleep on a mattress for three years and return it.
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When I audition, I understand what it takes and the insecurities that come with it. If I do anything, I put actors at ease. I used to tell directors who weren't actors, the best thing they could do was take an acting class for a couple of months. Just to understand.
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It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than by 60 million for something you're not.
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Basically, I still have the privacy that all celebrities crave, except for those celebrities who feel that privacy reflects some kind of failure on their part.
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When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.
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As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.
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I never, in anything I've ever done, tried to get you to like it. I was never going to succeed at that. That's not the way most entertainment is made. Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.
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I attempt to create a form of seriocomic entertainment to either delight, enlighten, or disgust, whichever you'd like. In terms of making motion pictures, I write and direct and act. I guess you'd say I'm a filmmaker.
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My humor is traced with dark - I've got dark patches all over the place.
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I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.
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I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.
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If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
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You never do a movie and not want it to work. You accept whatever it is. You have to, but nobody in their right mind would not want the movie to be getting talked about at the end of the year.