Robert Brooks famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I don't know how I'm gonna pick up a bat again. I just need to be away for a bit and play with my dogs.

  • I have a really great family, and when Im not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I dont get crazy.

  • I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

  • If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs

  • The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.

  • Hanukkah is...the festival of lights, instead of one day of presents, we get eight crazy nights

  • According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's an apt metaphor for our profession. But there's another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family. Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

  • Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

  • We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.

  • Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

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