Albert Brooks Quotes

My roots were in acting. That's all I wanted to be. Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'

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• God bless nannies.

  

  Laura Dern
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• I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.

  

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• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

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• It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

  

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• Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

  

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• There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.

  

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• When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

  

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• But eventually it is a game of cricket.

  

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• I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.

  

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• If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.

  

  Jack Kemp
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• Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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• Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.

  

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• The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

  

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• It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.

  

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• I think I can get away, sometimes, with walking in the streets and not getting noticed. I like that. I want my work to get noticed, not me. And it's slowly getting there, which is good.

  

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• I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

  

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• I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

  

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• My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'

  

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• I love having that conversation with someone I've never met before who's enjoying something that I wrote and being able to connect and share that.

  

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• I never like to wear too much makeup, and sometimes the best makeup is when it's not too perfect. I like to sometimes apply my makeup with my fingers.

  

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• Around '62 in Baltimore, all the girls had those big hairdos. And then suddenly, a few of the really hip ones started doing their hair straight. And people panicked. And it was called going 'Joe,' meaning Joe College. And people would say, 'I don't know. Should I be 'Joe'? I can't decide.'

  

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• You would never have seen me on any party scene, which is probably what made me able to disappear, in a way, because the tabloids had nothing to follow.

  

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• My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.

  

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• My roots were in acting. That's all I wanted to be. Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Age
  • Father
  • Cool