214 Quotes by Albert Brooks

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

This was enormously challenging, because it involved filling 120 blank pages with an actual story and words people say.

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.

Fear is playing a major part in Hollywood production,

The whole world is tense. Everybody gets the international news. There's been no American comedy at all that even remotely addresses the subject in any way. My goal isn't to solve the world's problems. My character wasn't even able to do his assignment. But the premise of wanting to find out about somebody -- other than the stuff that the CIA will tell you -- there's no hope unless we do that.

When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.

The world really changed after 9/11, not just in the tragic way, but in every way. So it took me a couple of years to even understand how my art form I could process any of this. When the world changed, eliciting laughter with subjects that were funny to me before 9/11 just didn't seem good enough.

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

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.