Albert Brooks Quotes

How many people didn't get a part who would have been better than the person who got the part? Thousands.

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• I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Great
  • Game
  • Interesting

• In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Garden
  • Germany
  • Bag

• I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Think
  • Environment
  • Easy

• If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Star
  • Never
  • Child

• Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Door
  • Step
  • First Step

• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Stage
  • Flow

• I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • She
  • Age
  • Strong

• War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Up
  • War
  • Gun

• Musical theater is one of my passions.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Theater
  • Musical
  • Passions

• There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Think
  • Space
  • Volunteer

• Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • House
  • Ever
  • Transfer

• When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Different
  • American
  • America

• When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we'll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Real
  • Future
  • Start

• It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Money
  • Wrong
  • Allow

• At a person-to-person level, I think that there's always something to be said for having some empathy for the folks who really, really disagree with you about a given topic.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Think
  • You
  • Empathy

• I have the picture in my mind of how emotional I will feel if I win again.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Mind
  • Picture
  • Emotional

• These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Me
  • Learn
  • Sincerity

• I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Single

• Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Give
  • Terrible

• When I was a street performer, before I had any songs of my own that anybody would stop and put in money for, I would always be doing covers. Even with covers, people wouldn't stop in the beginning.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • Money
  • Stop

• Oh, I've been ridiculously lucky to work for, I'd say, five of the greatest directors of all time... and a lot of other great people, too.

  

  Alden Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• My family was quite poor, and the NHS was recruiting people from abroad to do psychiatric nursing. It was the only hope I had to leave Hong Kong.

  

  John Rocha
  • People
  • Family
  • Hope

• How many people didn't get a part who would have been better than the person who got the part? Thousands.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • People