18 Best Quotes by American Actor Albert Brooks

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

All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger because that’s all people know how to do when they’re improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.

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.

Movies are an expensive business.

Even though my father was a radio comedian it wasn’t cool to say at a young age ‘I want to be a comedian.’

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

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.

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

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.

I can’t not put humor in a book.

I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage when you’re younger you keep thinking you can fix things. That’s what people do. And you can’t really fix anything. It shouldn’t be a massive difficult thing every day. Life’s difficult enough.

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

I like movies about failing.

Movies are an expensive business.

I cast unusual people in my movies.

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.

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.

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.