Albert Brooks Quotes

If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.

Albert Brooks

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• The show I'm obsessed with watching is 'Say Yes to the Dress!' Because I love the whole makeover idea, and I'm a sap for love, of course.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Love
  • Idea
  • Watching

• The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Beginning
  • Things
  • Reveal

• I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Today
  • Imagination

• From caring comes courage.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Courage
  • Caring

• I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Book
  • Controversial

• For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Made
  • Just

• Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Men
  • Man

• Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • History
  • Science
  • Political

• I can take the steel guitars and fiddles off, we can make it a little more pop, cover ideas that are a little less cowboy. But you got to look at yourself in the mirror and ask, whose flag you are under? For Garth Brooks, I'm steel, fiddles, red, white and blue.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Ideas
  • Red
  • Blue

• I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Never
  • Person
  • Become

• I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Time
  • Art
  • Value

• If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?

  

  Randall Terry
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Moral

• Now obey thy cherished secret wish,Embrace thy friends-leave all in order;To port and hawser's tie no more returning,Depart upon thy endless cruise, old Sailor!

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Friends
  • Wish

• Having fun is a dismal business after you pass fifty.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Business
  • Fun

• Languages, literature, art, music, history: are all self-evident helps - and even mathematics and sciences, by training memory and demanding the analytical approach, are helpful by indirection.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Music
  • Art
  • History

• The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Philosophical
  • Plato

• Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads by choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the subtle disciplines

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Competition

• Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.

  

  Maria Edgeworth
  • Heart
  • Irish

• I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Life

• I love Back Stage. I have lots of theater friends and actors who depend on Back Stage.

  

  Anurag Kashyap
  • Friends

• I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.

  

  Martha Graham
  • Life
  • Dance

• In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Time
  • End
  • Born

• My goal is to show girls that I'm fighting so they don't have to, so they don't have to fight the same battles, so they don't have to fight for wage equality or whatever it may be.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • May
  • Fighting
  • Equality

• If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.

  

  Albert Brooks