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Albert Brooks

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

— Albert Brooks anger

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?'

— Albert Brooks self

When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.

— Albert Brooks die

If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.

— Albert Brooks art

Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.

— Albert Brooks live

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.

— Albert Brooks funny

It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than by 60 million for something you're not.

— Albert Brooks people

Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.

— Albert Brooks men

As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.

— Albert Brooks time

I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that... I've always done 'less is more.'

— Albert Brooks silence

There's always the standard six people you can hire that have played all these villains in Hollywood. Instinctively, when they come on screen, you know what's going to happen. You don't know the story, but you know what they do.

— Albert Brooks people

What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.

— Albert Brooks truth

When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.

— Albert Brooks death

When I audition, I understand what it takes and the insecurities that come with it. If I do anything, I put actors at ease. I used to tell directors who weren't actors, the best thing they could do was take an acting class for a couple of months. Just to understand.

— Albert Brooks wit

You know what it is, the reason so many 18-year-olds, 19-year-olds are saying 'Drive' is their favorite movie is that 'Drive' is a 90-minute trip into what a lot of seventies filmmaking was. It encapsulates the best of a certain kind of style, and a style that a lot of people haven't seen before, with the music and the way it's edited.

— Albert Brooks music

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

— Albert Brooks money

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

— Albert Brooks funny

I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.

— Albert Brooks funny

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

— Albert Brooks men

I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.

— Albert Brooks end

Twitter is the Devil's playground.

— Albert Brooks evil

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.

— Albert Brooks time

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 art

Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before - comedy and Muslim. Comedy is friendly - it's the least offensive word in our language.

— Albert Brooks words

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.

— Albert Brooks art

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