Albert Brooks Quotes
Film is the cheapest part of the movie making process. The expense is the 100-man crew and the financing and everything.
I'm a big consumer of news and I have my six newspaper sites booked. And what I like bout Twitter is it's almost, it allows me to make a comment about something that's just on my mind.
You always got to be happy when somebody likes what you do. It's stupid not to be happy.
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?'
Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It wont be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it.
Being a screenwriter in Hollywood is like being a eunuch at an orgy. Worse, actually, at least the eunuch is allowed to watch.
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.
Donald Trump announces this morning that he will run for president. His hair will announce on Friday.
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.
It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not.
You can equate acting to a tennis game: When you're playing one of the best, you get better.
You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.
Acceptance is going to a restaurant where the salad's not great, but the steak is fine.
I have children. I have a family to support. But I really could live in a one-room apartment, as long as the television worked. I never needed anything. Just a comfortable chair and I'm fine.
Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie.
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.
I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a better L.A. movie about a certain period in L.A.? That was terrific.
Starting to drink now in preparation for New Years. No more last minute stuff like Christmas.
Art and resistance are great together. That's what art's made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn't cut off his ear because he was selling well.
I just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions.
My mother was supportive without knowing it. Deep down she wanted all the right things, she just didn't see the world like I did, and she's not supposed to.
In the beginning of any career, in every job, people are always forcing you to the middle.
You never do a movie and not want it to work. You accept whatever it is. You have to, but nobody in their right mind would not want the movie to be getting talked about at the end of the year.
It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.
When you use more than 3-5% of your brain, you don't want to be on Earth!"-Bob Diamond, Interdimensional Attorney, from the Albert Brooks' movie, Defending Your Life
My roots were in acting. That's all I wanted to be. Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'
Basically, I still have the privacy that all celebrities crave, except for those celebrities who feel that privacy reflects some kind of failure on their part.
If anything happens to me tell every woman I've ever gone with I was talking about her at the end. That way they'll have to reevaluate me.