American - Actor | July 22, 1947 -
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.
Albert Brooks
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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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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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I never wanted to be a director.
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You know, when cameras are rolling, improvisation doesn't feel natural. The pressure is too great. You're on a time schedule. You've got 60 crewmen.
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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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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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Twitter is the Devil's playground.
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It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.
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Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.
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I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.
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There's always the standard six people you can hire that have played all these villains in Hollywood. Instinctively, when they come on screen, you know what's going to happen. You don't know the story, but you know what they do.
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