Albert Brooks Quotes

I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.

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• I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • American
  • Said
  • Once

• A lot of our animation projects are co-productions with French production companies.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Production
  • Lot
  • Animation

• The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Great
  • Age
  • Dream

• Shooting at Coco Chanel's apartment was an unexpectedly absorbing experience. The essence of Chanel is firmly rooted there in all of her possessions, and I truly believe that her spirit and soul still inhabit the second floor.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • Soul

• I'd love the opportunity to do something where I could really give my opinion, my feisty side - it'd be fun!

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Opportunity

• At the Norman Invasion, the Saxon thanes were themselves humbled in turn; the manors were given a more legal character and transferred to favourites of William the Conqueror.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Character
  • Turn
  • Legal

• There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Career
  • Song
  • Inspiration

• Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Real
  • Revolution
  • Sign

• Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Interesting
  • Language

• It is in the genes of cities to bounce back from disasters - whether natural or man made. The denizens of suburbia have no choice but to survive and move on. But it is the manner in which different cities respond to emergencies that sets them apart.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Different
  • Man
  • Choice

• When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Believe
  • You
  • Way

• It's concerning to me when people look at the course of education as just a means for getting a job four years later. If you're just doing this because it is going to lead to a 'good job,' you're better off doing something you're genuinely interested in.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• I take one day at a time. I am not someone to define my goals.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Time
  • Day
  • Goals

• I think a part of me thought that I might be interested in academia because I really do love school. I mean that on all levels - I like educational environments; I like being part of that community of learning and exploration. And I like to talk.

  

  K. Flay
  • Community
  • Learning
  • Like

• Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Experience
  • Wisdom
  • Beginning

• The Church, the organized expression of the religious life of the past, is one of the most potent institutions and forces in Western civilization. ...It cannot help throwing its immense weight on one side or the other. If it tries not to act, it thereby acts; and in any case its choice will be decisive for its own future.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Life
  • Help
  • Future

• Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [Was that sufficiently incendiary?]

  

  Larry Wall
  • School
  • Simplicity

• They dined on mince, and slices of quince,Which they ate with a runcible spoon;And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,They danced by the light of the moon,The moon,The moon,They danced by the light of the moon.

  

  Edward Lear
  • Light
  • Hand
  • Moon

• That's a wonderful side effect of leather pants: when you pee yourself in them, they're more forgiving than jeans.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Forgiving
  • Wonderful Side
  • Leather Pants

• I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough.

  

  Sunny Murray
  • Sound
  • Manipulate
  • Interpret

• Theatre can entertain, provoke, challenge, investigate, comfort and educate. It's arrogant of a playwright to think education is more important than anything else. Writing for the theatre does not give you permission to lecture, hector or bore.

  

  Alistair Beaton
  • Writing
  • Education
  • Theatre

• It was the same with Schumacher: the need for the adrenaline rush, to push himself to the limit was always there. So without a Formula One car to race with he went on to do motorcycle racing and other stupid things, and obviously that wasn't enough to keep him happy, so he had a problem to sort out and returning to racing was his answer to the problem.

  

  Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda
  • Problem
  • Formula One
  • Michael Schumacher

• I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.

  

  Albert Brooks