Albert Brooks Quotes
I studied acting at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh because I figured a good comedian certainly could act.
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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With network, shows are pulled half the time after three episodes whether they're good or they're not good. It's a numbers game. With cable, they can take a lot more liberties.
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The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done.
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If you don't use good ingredients, the outcome is never going to be excellent. But if you buy the freshest ingredients that are in season, at their peak, and you cook with them, you can't really go wrong.
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I've been hit in the head a lot, but I don't think I have any problems, but I can't, for the life of me, remember a lot of my road stories and good times. When times are bad enough, that's all you can ever think about.
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As you get older, you overthink and can talk yourself out of anything. It's good to be a bit reckless and experimental.
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We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.
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Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
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I think fans always want something new, but they want somebody who can deliver - to go out there and really entertain them and have good matches.
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
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If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
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Most of the time, I don't really give people a chance. I have a wall up. I'm always protecting who I am. Thinking about my brand. I make it hard on people. Sometimes, it's a good thing. Sometimes, it's a bad thing.
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If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you're in a good place and you're in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse.
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Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously.
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Anything you can do to get more people to come to your live shows is good, because that's where you can really do what you do. Everyone's on the same page, and you don't have to win strangers over as much.
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Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
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If you don't have good horses, it's very tough to win.
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My French is still good. That's a beautiful language and I'm happy to speak it.
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Promoting healthy lifestyles and encouraging fitness are so important for our children's development and reducing the nation's epidemic of childhood obesity.
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In 1973, I broke off from the therapy and decided I could go through one of those episodes on my own, in my house. I found there is no real need to be locked up. I found that I was able to use that kind of awake dreaming that you go into during insanity and look at it and live with it and relate to it and become friends with it.
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The strongest interactions are the nuclear interactions, which include the forces that bind nuclei together and the interaction between the nuclei and the z mesons. It also includes the interactions that give rise to the observed strange-particle production.
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I just try not to judge. Don't judge me, and I won't judge you.
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I studied acting at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh because I figured a good comedian certainly could act.
