Quotes: Brooks

Mr. Brooks and I have been friends forever. He is in seventh heaven with his new success on Broadway.

Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

One of the perks of being an actor is to get to meet athletes that you respect. Especially who played before my time. Brooks Robinson is one of those athletes; they just don’t make them any nicer.

Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it’s going to be one of those really silly movies and that’s how it got made.

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.

And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie.

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.

I’m reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.