Albert Brooks Quotes

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

Albert Brooks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleBetterPersonGotGetBeen

I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool.

Jerry Doyle

FishingCoolFlyBoatThoughtSaid

In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined.

Robert Metcalfe

VoiceInternetDataTrafficWill

When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis. I went round the night my mother was lying in the kitchen, and I organised everything, from the undertaker to the funeral... I looked after everybody, I sorted it all out and I've done so ever since.

Stuart Rose

FatherMotherSisterNightKitchen

To me, it's always bumpy, and to me, that's the joy of it. That's this game. That's how hard it is in the NFL. Really, what you did last year or 2010, as we know, doesn't factor.

Mike McCarthy

JoyMeGameYearYouKnow

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

Douglas MacArthur

OrganizationWorldFightingMarines

Obama does seem to have what both FDR and Lincoln had, which is the recognition that you have to hold back at times and then wait to come forward.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

WaitForwardRecognitionYouBack

If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.

Christopher Meloni

RealityEnoughYouTryBendHard

E-commerce is a powerful means to connect the unconnected to global trade.

Arancha Gonzalez

PowerfulConnectTradeE-Commerce

In the absence of a magnetic field the period of all these oscillations is the same. But as soon as the electron is exposed to the effect of a magnetic field, its motion changes.

Pieter Zeeman

ChangesSameMotionAbsenceSoon

I think the real understanding comes when we recognize our humanity in each other. That's not just between blacks and whites. That's between all religions as well.

Phylicia Rashad

ThinkUnderstandingHumanityReal

As Mick Jagger will tell you, performing is an aerobic work-out. I've got the bass guitar, which is the heaviest of all the instruments, and I'm a little girl, in boiling-hot leather under the lights. You have to keep the fitness level up if you want to look good up there.

Suzi Quatro

GoodGirlFitnessGuitarYouLook

Fraud investigations punish those who lie, knowing that they are lying, intending to fool others, and do it for money. No one should be too big to answer for that conduct.

Sheldon Whitehouse

MoneyFoolLieLyingKnowingFraud

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