Albert Brooks is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, writer, comedian and director.
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“When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.”
Albert Brooks
“Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It won't be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it.”
“I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'”
“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.”
“I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.”
“If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.”
“Fear is playing a major part in Hollywood production,”
“I was allowed to film in the biggest mosque in India and when I told the imam the plot of the movie he started to laugh,”
“When we spoke, he told me, 'The Newsweek thing has changed the world.' And I said, 'Wasn't it 9/11 that changed the world?' But Michael said he just didn't want to take a chance.”
“Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before -- comedy and Muslim. Comedy is friendly -- it's the least offensive word in our language.”