Albert Brooks

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  • “My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called ‘New Faces of 1937.’ My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang…

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  • “If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.” -Albert Brooks

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  • “My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called ‘New Faces of 1937.’ My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang…

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  • “I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when you’re younger, you keep thinking you can fix things. That’s what people do. And you can’t really fix anything. It shouldn’t be a massive difficult thing every day. Life’s difficult enough.” -Albert Brooks

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  • “I can’t not put humor in a book.” -Albert Brooks

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  • “What’s interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It’s either a utopia or it’s misery. The real truth is that there’s going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.” -Albert Brooks

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  • “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.” -Albert Brooks

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  • “My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called ‘New Faces of 1937.’ My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang…

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  • “When I was younger, I wasn’t concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always ‘lead’ to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began…

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  • “My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called ‘New Faces of 1937.’ My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang…

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  • “Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn’t cool to say, at a young age, ‘I want to be a comedian.’” -Albert Brooks

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  • “Movies are an expensive business.” -Albert Brooks

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  • “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.” -Albert Brooks

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