Brooke Adams Quotes

It's glamorous when a movie is released, but then you feel disconnected from it. Someone asked if it wouldn't be more glamorous for me being on Broadway rather than Off Broadway, but I thought, 'What's the difference?' The Orpheum is a smaller house, that's all. And there are no mikes, so you just talk louder.

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• The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Say
  • Three

• Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Think
  • Trust
  • Brain

• I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • People
  • Work
  • God

• The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Good
  • Business
  • Leader

• Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Good
  • Question
  • Poetry

• I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Wife
  • Morning

• My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Great
  • Family
  • Mother

• I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Field
  • Plantation
  • Cane

• I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Will
  • Walk
  • Caring

• A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Character
  • Like
  • Story

• All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Children
  • School

• I'm not somebody who gets teared up or anything, but I still look up at the stars, and it gives me hope, and it gives me energy. I think one of the things that we have to think about it is, we are all a part of this universe.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Energy

• He plants trees to benefit another generation.

  

  Caecilius Statius
  • Trees
  • Plants
  • Gardening

• People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.

  

  OMI
  • Song
  • Quality
  • Meaningful

• I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • My Life

• A man in the house is worth two in the street.

  

  Mae West
  • House
  • Man
  • Street

• I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Money
  • Government
  • Promise

• There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Power
  • High
  • Giving

• Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.

  

  Kenzaburo Oe
  • Reality
  • Support
  • Popular

• Making a movie is like a stagecoach ride through the Old West: at first you wish for a pleasant trip, and after a while you just hope you reach your destination.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Movie
  • Destination
  • Stagecoach

• Judi Dench, apart from the name and fame, is the most genuinely hilarious, sophisticated, and loving person I have known. And I mean all of that together at once. That's something.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Together
  • Hilarious

• I enjoy where I am and I don't have a problem with being Steve Buscemi, Stanley Tucci, Don Cheadle, or Jeffrey Wright. They're not the lead of every movie they're in, but every time you see them they're really good.

  

  Anthony Mackie
  • Time
  • Good
  • Movie

• It's glamorous when a movie is released, but then you feel disconnected from it. Someone asked if it wouldn't be more glamorous for me being on Broadway rather than Off Broadway, but I thought, 'What's the difference?' The Orpheum is a smaller house, that's all. And there are no mikes, so you just talk louder.

  

  Brooke Adams
  • Movie
  • House