Brickman Quotes

#1. To bear pain without letting it spoil your happiness is true valor.

Anonymous

#2. I secrete jokes like the pancreas secretes ... whatever the pancreas secretes.

Marshall Brickman

#3. Music pulled me like a gravitational force. I entered college as a physics major but left as a Bachelor of Music, a degree with the same practical application as, say, one in the History of Chinese Poetry.

Marshall Brickman

#4. There is a pool of references in New York and Los Angeles that are almost exclusively drawn from the media, from the world of television and advertising.

Marshall Brickman

#5. Some people suffer in silence louder than others.

Morrie Brickman

#6. A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

King Solomon

#7. As I started to develop as a director, I wanted to do projects that were inherently more cinematic, where the freight was not so much in the dialogue, where it would be carried more by the camera.

Marshall Brickman

#8. The real beauty of democracy is that the average man believes he is above average.

Morrie Brickman

#9. The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.

Jean De La Bruyere

#10. O.K., helplessness is repugnant to me, as a father, as a piece of protoplasm. My parents were activists. I don't believe you can't do anything.

Marshall Brickman

#11. I don't know whether the world is full of smart men bluffing or imbeciles who mean it.

Morrie Brickman

#12. To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.

James A. Garfield

#13. Comedy comes easily to me, and so for me, comedy is suspect.

Marshall Brickman

#14. After college, rather than pursue real work, I joined a folk group and sang in coffee houses and nightclubs, an occupation that does little for the intellect and even less for the complexion.

Marshall Brickman

#15. If I weren't a film maker, I'd probably be a handyman.

Marshall Brickman

#16. Wanting to be a screenwriter is like wanting to be a co-pilot.

Marshall Brickman

#17. There's something mystical and wonderful about being in the room with the actual live performer s on stage that works. In film, it doesn't work so you're dependent on a great director to keep the thing moving along.

Marshall Brickman

#18. I now believe that there's only a certain amount of good luck in the world, and so if something good happens to me, that means something bad has to happen to somebody, somewhere.

Marshall Brickman

#19. When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.

Marshall Brickman

#20. I think there's just too much comedy. Sometimes I get requests from people: 'How do I get into comedy?' And I always say that what we need is more people in health care. And less people in comedy.

Marshall Brickman

#21. You can't really think about more than one movie at a time. You're thinking about it consciously, and the subconscious is working too, and if you cram too much into your head, you don't get any ideas in the shower.

Marshall Brickman

#22. I don't believe in jogging. It extends your life - but by exactly the amount of time you spend jogging.

Marshall Brickman

#23. I will tell everyone I know to come [to the library]. This place saves lives.

Gina Sheridan

#24. You are the love of my life, and I'm so glad you found me ...

Jim Brickman

#25. New York and Los Angeles are really one city, and the rest of the country is America.

Marshall Brickman