Albert Brooks Quotes

Nobody will leave any place unless they're forced out. That's the nature of humans. Once you're there, you're there. I've never seen anybody get up voluntarily and leave any place.

Albert Brooks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

NatureYouPlaceNobodyWillNever

I know I'm not some matinee idol, but I think we're sold this bill of goods by the media, which says that only the most beautiful and dashing people can become movie stars. So when someone like me sneaks in, they have to redo the calculations.

John C. Reilly

StarsBeautifulPeopleMeThink

All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?

Studs Terkel

LifeWorkTimeJobWomanWar

People, I just want to say, can we all get along? Can we get along?

Rodney King

PeopleSayWantAlongGetJust

There's a ton of stuff in mythology and folklore that is loaded with wonderful creatures that I haven't drawn yet, but that's kind of my retirement plan. Theoretically, I won't be doing comics any longer, and I'll just be drawing and painting whatever the hell I want. Most of that will be monsters.

Mike Mignola

PaintingRetirementHellDoingPlan

The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself only in addressing vital tasks with the means of its times. A knowledge of the times, its tasks, and its means is the necessary precondition of work in the building art.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

WorkKnowledgeArtSpiritualReality

I'm not into politics.

David Stern

Politics

I couldn't continue to live in a bubble and hope to be an empathic actor. It doesn't work.

Cole Sprouse

WorkLiveHopeBubbleActor

I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.

Bruce Springsteen

MyselfKnowAlwaysLifetimeSaw

I'm not such a big star. I am just a little planet. In Spain, people don't put so much attention on the star system. But here in America, I can feel it. Mostly, people are very, very nice. But there are also a bunch of fanatics behind the stars.

Antonio Banderas

StarsI AmPeopleAmericaAttention

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

Allan Bloom

PrejudiceWorstReasonBecauseOnly

Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.

Alice Paul

WomenWaitLongLibertyDeserveUs

I have no intention of telling people what I have for breakfast.

Princess Margaret

PeopleBreakfastIntentionTelling

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