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
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 to appreciate a great Wednesday.
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.
It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than by 60 million for something you're not.
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 never wanted to be a director.
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.
I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.
I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.
I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'
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.
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.
When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.
If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.
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.
