Famous Quotes

"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 at parties."

Albert Brooks on Family

More quotes about Family

• "I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future."

  LaToya Jackson on Family

• "If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher."

  Abdul Kalam on Family

• "Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten."

  David Ogden Stiers on Family

• "The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege."

  Charles Kuralt on Family

• "Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship."

  Margaret Mead on Family

More quotes by Albert Brooks

• "I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it."

• "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."

• "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."

• "Movies are an expensive business."

• "Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'"