A biography for Albert Brookshasn’t been written yet.
“I never wanted to be a director.”
“I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?'”
“In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them.”
“I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.”
“I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.”
“I can't not put humor in a book.”
“Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.”
“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.”
“I think I present a different side of a male character: a side that is not John Wayne-like, a side that is, in fact, destructible. To some people, that is refreshing, and to other people, especially if they don't know me, it may be disturbing.”
“I've heard people say, 'There are no bad audiences,' but that's just not true. There are people who just shouldn't be together in a room, who produce a really bad audience.”
“My audience has lots of people between 20 and 35, but there are always a few 60-year-olds, and it makes me happier than if everyone was 22.”
“When I started out, I tried out all my stuff on national television. There were no comedy clubs, but even if there were, I don't think I would have gone to them. I used to do stuff in the bathroom, and then I'd drive down to NBC and do it on 'The Golddiggers' with Dean Martin.”
“I've been doing comedy since I was two. You know, kids who make other kids laugh. The sickness had set in! I could make my friends' parents laugh; I had a sense of what was silly and funny.”
“My roots were in acting. That's all I wanted to be. Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'”
“How many people didn't get a part who would have been better than the person who got the part? Thousands.”
“I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.”
“I don't know; I guess they'll never make another 'Nemo.' I see they're making another 'Monsters, Inc.' I had a wonderful idea for them. I swear to God, I think there could be a great sequel to 'Nemo' where the fish never will leave home. He just won't leave. 'Getting Rid of Nemo.' Right, 'You're 30 years old! Get out of here!'”
“My humor is traced with dark - I've got dark patches all over the place.”
“I wrote this book, '2030,' and I was careful in the book not to overdo the future because I don't think it comes that fast.”
“I cast unusual people in my movies.”