Albert Brooks Quotes

I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

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• People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.

  

  Weegee
  • People
  • Moment
  • Wait

• NASA should start thinking about this planet.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Thinking
  • Start
  • NASA

• My health is fine.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Health
  • Fine

• The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Character
  • Moral
  • Parent

• The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isn't so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • New
  • Limits
  • Mature

• We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Freedom
  • Need
  • Speech

• We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Lost
  • Ground
  • Middle East

• If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Want
  • Emotional
  • Audience

• The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Team
  • End
  • Fight

• My friends in college, several of whom are still my closest companions, would tell you that I was almost obsessed with becoming - fixated on creating - the future that I envisioned for myself: one of expanding to know my fullest self, which I have in no way achieved.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Friends
  • Future
  • College

• The whole voiceover world is new and different to me and quite challenging.

  

  Jack Coleman
  • World
  • Different
  • Me

• It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Better
  • Young
  • Old

• What I know is the characters in a Southern town. I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long. And I know the neighborhoods, and I hopefully know the people, and I feel a connection to them. And I also feel like I'm honoring them when I talk about them.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Long
  • Language

• I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • You
  • Enough
  • Look

• It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Single

• You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

  

  Mae West
  • Live
  • Enough
  • Right

• In life, I take my decisions and stand by them. Some decisions may have proven to be not the best, but I have learnt from them, and I've never repeated a mistake again. If someone tells me to turn left, I will go right! I could not have been taught a lesson in any other way rather than by going through it.

  

  Kajol
  • Life
  • May
  • Best

• Sports saved my life.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Sports
  • My Life

• May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • May
  • Today
  • Violence

• Dummy, dummy, go out now and fill your tummy.

  

  William Goldman
  • Dummy

• So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of you, we are ending these wars in a way that will make America stronger and the world more secure. Because of you.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I'm a clown, which could be a public health role. I'm really interested in moving our society away from a society needing Xanax and Prozac, and that is really feeling depressed, to one that is celebrating, and so I find just walking around in colorful clothes, people smile.

  

  Patch Adams
  • People
  • Society
  • Feeling

• The Beatles were in a different stratosphere, a different planet to the rest of us. All I know is when I heard 'Love Me Do' on the radio, I remember walking down the street and knowing my life was going to be completely different now the Beatles were in it.

  

  Justin Hayward The Moody Blues
  • Life
  • Different
  • Remember

• I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Walking