214 Quotes by Albert Brooks

You can equate acting to a tennis game: When you’re playing one of the best, you get better.

Acceptance is going to a restaurant where the salad’s not great, but the steak is fine.

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

I’ve never been disappointed, because I’ve never given somebody I liked that much power.

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.

When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue. But it didn’t really translate into careers for any of them, because the external is the easy 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.

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.

I’m not a person who I ever thought would do well with divorce. Not that it can’t happen. I just didn’t want that. So I waited a long time to meet the right person. Then I finally met someone that I was willing to be divorced from.