Albert Brooks – Quotes Crazy

Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but Ive never worked on a movie, including my own, that didnt take advantage of a rehearsal process. – Albert Brooks

Ive done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didnt take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didnt take off. – Albert Brooks

Ive always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible. – Albert Brooks

By the way, movies are like sporting events in that youre as good as the movie youre 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 theyre dreck, its nothing. – Albert Brooks

I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when youre younger, you keep thinking you can fix things. Thats what people do. And you cant really fix anything. It shouldnt be a massive difficult thing every day. Lifes difficult enough. – Albert Brooks

I cant not put humor in a book. – Albert Brooks

Whats interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: Its either a utopia or its misery. The real truth is that theres going to be both things in any future, just like there is now. – Albert Brooks

I dont want to be the one to break it to you, but the future aint that funny. – Albert Brooks

Twitter, to me, works if youre funny. Twitter doesnt work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally. – Albert Brooks

Ive been to many funerals of funny people, and theyre some of the funniest days youll ever have, because the emotions run high. – Albert Brooks

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. – Albert Brooks

Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasnt cool to say, at a young age, I want to be a comedian. – Albert Brooks

Id 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 elses foot. – Albert Brooks

All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because thats all people know how to do when theyre improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other. – Albert Brooks

I like movies about failing. – Albert Brooks

I cast unusual people in my movies. – Albert Brooks

If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money. – Albert Brooks

Movies are an expensive business. – Albert Brooks

I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it. – Albert Brooks