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• I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.

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  Comedy, Bigger, Wanted

  "Toronto 2011: Albert Brooks Talks Oscar Buzz for His 'Drive' Performance" by Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 16, 2011.

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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.

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  Years, Mind, Want

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• Excited about Black Friday. Also excited about Jew Tuesday.

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  Friday, Tuesday, Black

  Twitter post from Nov 18, 2011

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• What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he's around? Nobody is going to be taken in if he has a long, red, pointy tail. No. I'm semi-serious here. He will look attractive and he will be nice and helpful and he will get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation and he will never do an evil thing... he will just bit by little bit lower standards where they are important. Just coax along flash over substance... Just a tiny bit. And he will talk about all of us really being salesmen. And he'll get all the great women.

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  Jobs, Nice, Taken

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• I don't experience basic human emotions. It's not my thing.

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  Emotion, Humans, Human Emotions

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• Starting to drink now in preparation for New Years. No more last minute stuff like Christmas.

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  New Year, Years, Preparation

  Twitter post from Dec 28, 2011

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• In the beginning of any career, in every job, people are always forcing you to the middle.

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  Jobs, Careers, People

  "Albert Brooks: What I've Learned". Esquire, "The Meaning of Life" issue, www.esquire.com. January 2011.

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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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  Art, Cutting, Together

  "Albert Brooks: What I've Learned". Esquire, "The Meaning of Life" issue, www.esquire.com. January 2011.

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• I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?'

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  Stars, Thinking, Goal

  "Auteur Albert Brooks Feels the 'Drive'". Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. September 14, 2011.

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• The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable.

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  Change, Want, Waste

  "Albert Brooks: What I've Learned". Esquire, "The Meaning of Life" issue, www.esquire.com. January 2011.

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• Movies are an expensive business.

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  Expensive

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• Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.

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  Tools, Ifs

  "Albert Brooks, ‘This Is 40’ Star, On Oscar Snubs, Working In LA & The Danger Of Twitter". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2012.

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• I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.

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  Iowa, Politician, Members

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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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  Running, People, Funeral

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• I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didn't take off.

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  Capes, Done, Proud

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

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  Tape, Used, Screenplays

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• I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.

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  Feet, Would Be, Survivor

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• If I'm going to act in someone's movie, I want the movie to be interesting and be able to get a couple of solid doubles.

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  Couple, Interesting, Want

  "Albert Brooks, ‘This Is 40’ Star, On Oscar Snubs, Working In LA & The Danger Of Twitter" by Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2012.

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• If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.

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  Play, Want, Audience

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• Twitter is the Devil's playground.

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  Devil, Playgrounds

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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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  Pressure, Cameras, Rolling

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• I take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.

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  Pigs, Compliment, Bigs

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• Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made him eat at four o'clock. He liked to direct it. But, to me, directing is tedious. Especially if you're acting in it. And I'm inherently lazy.

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  Dog, Lazy, Acting

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• 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.

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  Get Up, Humans

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• There's nothing funny about flying to Houston.

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  Flying, Houston

  "Albert Brooks: What I've Learned". Esquire, "The Meaning of Life" issue, www.esquire.com. January 2011.

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