James L. Brooks Quotes

Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.

James L. Brooks

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I can't leave anywhere without making my bed; it's ingrained.

Jillian Hervey

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I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?

John Burns

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The attraction in this city is money, from gambling. What you are if you work here is a shill.

Joe Williams

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When you leave L.A. and go to another city, guys are normal again. They like girls their own age.

Jennifer Coolidge

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Walt Disney always said, 'For every laugh, there should be a tear.' I believe in that.

John Lasseter

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I can't do any more 'Peep Show' because of my loyalties in Los Angeles to 'Two And A Half Men,' so I'm staying put there for the moment. I'm loving life is L.A. at the moment - I'm out there for work, as that is where the jobs are.

Sophie Winkleman

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Boxing should focus on pitting champion versus champion - those are the fights that everyone wants to see. The sports also needs to work on developing new heroes and personalities. I'd like to see more vignettes on fighters, focusing on their lives, goals and stories. Boxers need to be larger than life.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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I am actually wearing slacks on the show more than I ever have - it is now acceptable, and I like mixing it up.

Mary Hart

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There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs.

Marvin Harris

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All actors are my brothers and my sisters. It ain't cool to compare or disparage them. It ain't polite.

Michael Keaton

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Every day, I wake up and ask, 'Am I hungry?' If I'm physically hungry, I eat something that's hopefully good for me, and then do it again in a few hours. If I get a phone call I don't like, I'll say to myself, 'Is that the reason I want to eat something?' If it is, I try not to do it. It's literally a lifestyle.

Lisa Lampanelli

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I directed the next-to-last episode of 'Parenthood.' I wrote three of the four last episodes. I had the cast to my house. Had a champagne toast with the writers. Had a huge cast and crew party. Drank eggnog in the camera truck after we wrapped the final day. All that, and I don't really feel like I've said good-bye to 'Parenthood.'

Jason Katims

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