Albert Brooks Quotes - Page 2

Donald Trump announces this morning that he will run for president. His hair will announce on Friday.

Don't worry, and don't kick yourself forever. Just take the opportunities when they come.

I don't want to get close to people who have secrets that I don't know about.

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.

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.

You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.

You make friends with older people and you always feel young no matter what.

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.

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

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.

I just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions.

It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.

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.

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.

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.

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

Regrets are stupid; they don't mean anything and they don't add up to anything.

I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

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.

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 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.

I can't not put humor in a book.

Someone asked me "what do you think of Donald Trump?" And I said, "I would rather vote for Hillary Clinton in jail." If she gets convicted, I'll vote for her for president.