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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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: July 22, 1947

Topics

You Play Want Living Audience Act

My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it.

Worth Goal Spirit Worth It Happen

I like to invest as a performer in the director's vision and then bring a sense of reality to whatever I'm doing, whether it's comedy or whether it's drama, and trust that they're going to tell me if something's reading as funny or if it's reading as dramatic or reading in the right tone.

Funny Vision Trust Me Reading Doing

I entered this glam world by luck. I wanted to join dancing classes since I was a child, but my parents never gave me the permission to do so, as no one in our family had ever chosen this path. Fortunately, I got my first break in a reality show easily due to my dance skills, so that way I have been lucky.

Amruta Khanvilkar

Family Path Dance Child Parents Me

During the 1990s the United States sought to impose the 'Washington Consensus' on Latin American governments. It embodied what Latin Americans call 'neo-liberal' principles: budget cuts, privatization, deregulation of business, and incentives for foreign companies. This campaign sparked bitter resistance and ultimately collapsed.

Business American Budget Washington

I know I can pick up a playbook.

I Can Know Up Pick

I take care of myself. I work out three times a week. I have a trainer, and we just work out for an hour.

Work Myself Care Take Care Week Out

If you've done what you need to do, you need to go bury yourself, because what else are you going to do? I think that that's where life stops.

Life Yourself Think You Go Done

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.

Story Early Career Songs Wrote Had

I went from selling everything to saying, 'I ain't gonna sell that. Can't do it.' It wasn't working for me, so I was just like, 'Yo, I'm going to sell my talent.'

Talent Me Saying Selling Everything

I am a private guy, and at the end of the day, I only really do care about my family. That's the most important thing: my way of life, my family. Whoever is in front of that is going to get hurt.

Life Family Day I Am Hurt End

Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.

Men Church Look Down Place Up

Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

Higher League Robinson Brooks

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