3 December 2020 Albert Brooks 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.
3 December 2020 Albert Brooks 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.
3 December 2020 Albert Brooks 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.
3 December 2020 Albert Brooks If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.
3 December 2020 Albert Brooks Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but I’ve never worked on a movie, including my own, that didn’t take advantage of a rehearsal process.
3 December 2020 Albert Brooks I don’t want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain’t that funny.
3 December 2020 Albert Brooks Twitter, to me, works if you’re funny. Twitter doesn’t work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.
3 December 2020 Albert Brooks 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.
3 December 2020 Albert Brooks 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.
3 December 2020 Albert Brooks Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn’t cool to say, at a young age, ‘I want to be a comedian.’
3 December 2020 Albert Brooks I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.
