Quotes by Albert Brooks

I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when youre younger, you keep thinking you can fix things. Thats what people do. And you cant really fix anything. It shouldnt be a massive difficult thing every day. Lifes difficult enough.

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.

Thereve been a few mother-daughter movies that are somewhat realistic. But the mother-son movies are more comical than realistic: Throw Momma from the Train, Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot. You dont sit in the dark and go, Oh my God, thats my mother.

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

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

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

Even in my comedies, I dont take anger as a joke. I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it. One of the things I like about a character: I always think its fascinating when a character can turn on a dime and go from one emotion to another. I like watching that.