"I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.“

-Albert Brooks

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Albert Brooks quote about Anger: "I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it."

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"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."

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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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"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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"By the way, movies are like sporting events in that you're as good as the movie you're in. You can sit in a room for 20 years and go do a movie and you can just kill in it and you move to the head of the line again. By the same token, you can do five movies a year and if they're dreck, it's nothing."

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"I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible."

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