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
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
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
So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and… Wanda Sykes and John Legend… were adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And thats the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship. – Henry Louis Gates