Brad Garrett Quotes
I've always wanted to play a coach in a movie, just to be the captain of anything in the pirate ship of my bathtub.
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.
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I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
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When people say hello to me, I feel like maybe I know them from somewhere, because they say, like, 'Hi! How are you?' And I'm like, 'Oh, hi!' And then I realize, 'Oh, no, they just think they know me because they watched me in a movie.' Which is cool, but definitely not a normal thing.
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All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.
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People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice of you to say.' But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out.
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I was hoping, actually, that being on the other side of the camera in a scary movie, see how it's filmed and maybe you won't be as scared next time you watch one... didn't really work out! Because I know it's fake, but I just get so into it.
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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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I would love to do a 'Scream'-type movie.
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I really loved 'Witches of Eastwick', the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.
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There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.
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There came a point in time when Michael was under a great deal of pressure to alter the film in a way that was just disturbing to him. I had not seen the movie, yet. He phoned me in July of '92 to look at his version.
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I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.
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There is a lot of Indian connect in 'Million Dollar Arm'. It is about two Indian boys, and we even shot quite a bit of the movie in India.
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Oh I'm a huge comic book movie fan.
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Also everyone's hearts are in the right place when you do a small movie. You're not doing it for the money; you're not doing it for the possibility of an Oscar nomination. You are doing it because you love the material.
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The first movie I was ever on was a Dennis Hopper film down in Peru.
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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.
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I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
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I hope to stop discrimination against young transgender people.
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I've always wanted to play a coach in a movie, just to be the captain of anything in the pirate ship of my bathtub.
