Albert Brooks

I can't not put humor in a book.

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

It's funny: in the middle of making 'The Muse,' I was offered, at the time, the first 'Ice Age,' the part that Ray Romano took: I was offered the elephant. And I couldn't even stop to breathe, so I didn't do it. They've made, like, six of them. And in the animation business, for a voice actor, that's what you want. You want six, you know?

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.

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

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