Brooke Elliott Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
-
I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
-
I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
-
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
-
I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
-
When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
-
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-
Nashville, I think, for me, personally, would be where I want to live and work. L.A. is a whole other world and has a whole other vibe to it, so I would like to come out here for work for a couple of months, but L.A. is just not really my scene, per se.
-
I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
-
It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
-
Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
-
Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
-
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
-
I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
-
I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
-
I don't do meetings.
-
I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.
-
People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
-
Doesn't love show its face when it satisfies the need of the loved one, for the loved one's sake alone?
-
The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.
-
The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues.
-
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
-
America's middle class is getting hammered, and Washington is rigged to work for the big guy.
-
I usually work 16-hour days.
