Albert Brooks Quotes

I was offered 'Pretty Woman.' I was offered 'Big' and 'Dead Poets Society.' But what was important to me in those years was to make movies, to make these Albert Brooks movies.

Albert Brooks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WomanMeSocietyImportantMovies

Sometimes we think videogames are just games for kids, and then once they get out of grammar school or high school, they never play again, but that's when they really start playing.

John Madden

SchoolStartHigh SchoolThinkPlay

I wish I was more adventurous.

Matthew Bourne

WishMoreI WishAdventurous

Gang Starr was like the blueprint of my career.

Statik Selektah

CareerGangBlueprintLike

I think the Obama administration, whether it's in his first term or second term, is totally committed to the search for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, and we greatly appreciate the president's effort, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the first administration, now Secretary of State John Kerry.

Michael Oren

PeaceEffortThinkSearchAppreciate

I thought of myself as a soldier who was going to law school.

Jason Kander

MyselfSchoolLawThoughtSoldier

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

Derek Walcott

BeautyHistorySurpriseLandscape

Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.

Denis O'Hare

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You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody.

Dennis Brown

SingingSongYouWillAlwaysLine

After September 11, 2001, I was feeling like I really wanted more understanding between cultures. It seemed to me that so much of what happened on September 11 was because people didn't understand each other and were suspicious of each other.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

PeopleMeUnderstandingFeelingMore

If a player is trying to intimidate a skilled player on your team, what do we want? We want our skilled players playing, so we shouldn't be doing that.

Bobby Orr

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For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

SleepWillShallowSinkBlackness

If I have the option, I always read the paper or a book or something I can touch and destroy in my own hands.

Aubrey Plaza

BookHandsI CanTouchMy OwnOwn

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