Albert Brooks - biography

“It’s important to keep my face up there on the screen.  After all, if one of the movies does well, there’s a faint chance I can convince some tired executive that I was partly responsible.”

“Ten years ago, the studio heads thought the audience were sheep.  Now they think their snails with Down’s Syndrome.”

“The relationship between the artist and the audience is rather like a courtship.”

“When Rex Reed wrote that I had a face like an open sandwich, that was the best moment so far.  It’s just a thing of mine.  I’ve always wanted to be compared to deli food.”

“When I die, if the word ‘thong’ appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I’ve screwed up.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 still have the privacy that all celebrities crave, except for those celebrities who feel that privacy reflects some kind of failure on their part.”

“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 was in Kashmir last weekend.  Went to visit one of my sweaters.”

“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.”

Albert Brooks directed the following films:
Defending Your Life (1991)
Mother (1996)
The Muse (1999)
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2005)


Albert Brooks has appeared in the following films:
Taxi Driver (1976)
Private Benjamin (1980)
Terms of Endearment (1983)
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
Unfaithfully Yours (1984)
Broadcast News (1987)
Defending Your Life (1991)
I’ll Do Anything (1994)
The Scout (1994)
Mother (1996)
Critical Care (1997)
Out of Sight (1998)
The Muse (1999)
My First Mister (2001)
The In-Laws (2003)
Finding Nemo (2003)
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2005)
The Simpsons Movie (2007)
Drive (2011)
This Is 40 (2012)


Albert Brooks contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
The Scout (1994)
Mother (1996)
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2005)