Bernie Brillstein Quotes

#1. I had to take a bit of a break and fast for a while, but then I found myself very, very hungry when I got back to [song-writing].

Damien Rice

#2. I was stolen from my family by Navajo raiders when I was fourteen, and taken in by a Navajo family who had lost a daughter of their own." Josefina

Kathleen Ernst

#3. If two angels were sent down from heaven -one to conduct an empire and the other to sweep the streets -they would feel no inclination to change employment because an angel would know that no matter what we are doing, it's an opportunity to bring joy, deepen our understanding and expand our life.

Isaac Newton

#4. Consider this 're-make' business that is taking away opportunities for new ideas and new films to happen. If the movie was made right the first time, why make it again? The only reason this is happening is it has become a safer way for the Studios.

Bernie Brillstein

#5. In a world where celebrity equals talent, and where make-believe is called reality, it is most important to have real love, truth and stability in your life.

Bernie Brillstein

#6. The alumni of Second City from John Belushi to Martin Short have changed my entire life and brought a new kind of comedy to America and the World.

Bernie Brillstein

#7. I nod and hope he backs the hell away from me, because I'm about to have an asthma attack and I don't even have asthma.

Colleen Hoover

#8. What a pleasure it is to be in business with BASE. I'm impressed with the honesty, integrity and efficiency with which they operate. The next show I do and represent, I will be doing with them all over again.

Bernie Brillstein

#9. As Ibn Arabi says: 'Absolute existence is the source of all existence'.

Idries Shah

#10. I know how much embarrassment hurts, and I love it as a theme because you can keep digging a hole. It's just an endless well, embarrassment.

Ricky Gervais

#11. Her areas of expertise are bar codes, book titles and maps - she has an original Parker Brothers map of the world.

Jasper Fforde

#12. No, baby, I'm all man," he said with a smirk, winking at her. "Want me to prove it?

Jane Harvey-Berrick

#13. Because I'm fat, people believe I'm somehow vulnerable and easy to handle in a negotiation. Ever try to negotiate with a fat guy? We can be mean: Marvin Davis, Harvey Weinstein, Hermann Goering. No one screws around with us for long.

Bernie Brillstein

#14. Yes, only a fool would have slipped into her deepest reaches and grasped the woman within. The whole of her so fine and glorious, he had reverently fondled each nuance of her mind.

Mallory Rush

#15. Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note.

Bernie Brillstein

#16. If there be no enemy, no fight; if do fight, no victory; if no victory, no crown.

Girolamo Savonarola

#17. If you get validation from outside, then suddenly everything you do at home is justified.

Anurag Kashyap

#18. Why is it so weird that somebody didn't recognize me? ... The fact is that whenever I meet somebody, I say, 'Nice to meet you. I'm Julia.'

Julia Roberts

#19. My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

Colin Farrell

#20. We read because they teach us about people, we can see ourselves in them,in their problems.And by seeing ourselves in them, we clarify ourselves, we explain ourselves to ourselves, so we can live with ourselves ...

F. Sionil Jose

#21. I don't do vague. If I want to call you a coward, I will bock at you in no uncertain terms.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#22. Management is like making love. There's heat from both sides. You have an instinct to get there. You have no idea what you're really in for, but you do it anyway.

Bernie Brillstein