Albert Brooks Quotes
My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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I like making movies that people feel inspired by, a film that they will think about a few days after seeing it, and not entertainment that is completely forgettable the moment you walk out of the theater.
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I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.
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Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!
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I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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re: Abraham Lincoln 'Shall we stop this bleeding.'
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When all the plants in a region are running at full steam, there is simply no way to get more power.
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A soup manufacturer uses the same colors and design on every label to catch the consumer's eye and assure her that she's getting brand-name quality, whether she's buying bean soup or corn chowder or cream of tomato.
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I spend so much of my time working away, but I love being here. My family is in Somerset, and this is where my heart is.
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My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties.
