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Albert Brooks Quotes

American - Actor | July 22, 1947 -

In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them.

Beginning Talk Always Used Somebody

Well, you know, with every character, if you're going to expose yourself, you've got to figure out every detail that you're going to play. So there's no character that you can just go put on his shirt and be fully prepared.

Character Yourself Detail You Play

You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.

Writing You Find Know Director Out

I cast unusual people in my movies.

People Movies Cast Unusual

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

Magic You Want Write Just Writer

I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

Walking Washington Coat Big Where

Nobody will leave any place unless they're forced out. That's the nature of humans. Once you're there, you're there. I've never seen anybody get up voluntarily and leave any place.

Nature You Place Nobody Will Never

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.'

Silence King Influence Done More

Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'

Father Age Cool Young Say Want

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.

Friend Someone You Artist Say Way

My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties.

Family Great Mom Name Professional

Normally movies have the same people they use over and over for everything. It's called typecasting. They don't like to take chances. They'll go with the guy they had before.

People Go Movies Over Everything

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