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