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.'

Albert Brooks
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  1. When you use more than 3-5% of your brain, you don't want to be on Earth! "-Bob Diamond, Interdimensional Attorney, from the Albert Brooks' movie, Defending Your Life

  2. If anything happens to me tell every woman I've ever gone with I was talking about her at the end. That way they'll have to reevaluate me.

  3. I can't not put humor in a book.

  4. My humor is traced with dark - I've got dark patches all over the place.

  5. Basically, 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.

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