Brooke Adams Quotations

It's glamorous when a movie is released, but then you feel disconnected from it. Someone asked if it wouldn't be more glamorous for me being on Broadway rather than Off Broadway, but I thought, 'What's the difference?' The Orpheum is a smaller house, that's all. And there are no mikes, so you just talk louder.

In films, you are a commodity. You are a look, something that the camera really likes, something that has struck an audience in a certain way. It's not really so much about transforming yourself the way actors do onstage. I think there's a difference between the skill of acting in movies and onstage.

My life has gotten so much better since I turned 40.

I go through periods where I don't shop at all, and then I go crazy and buy everything in sight. I never know what to wear, and I'm at my worst before an audition. I pull everything out of the closet, throw it on my bed. I'll get entirely dressed and then take it all off again until I'm in a kind of frenzy.

As an actress, I always felt like the people you met on set were interchangeable with the people you met on other sets - the grips, the gaffers, the actors, the directors - everybody steps into their role.

I had wanted to be a movie star and had thought I would be a movie star since I was very little. It was just something I saw in my future. But somehow when it happened, I wasn't ready for it.

With this one I just want to make sure it was OK.

Words were with them forms of expression which varied with individuals, but falsehood was more or less necessary to all

We have no clue where they came from, ... We don't know if someone raised them and let them go or they got loose. We just don't know.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and, when got, the repose is insupportable

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

This is way beyond expectations. We've got the second best golfer in the state at Aspen High School, and I am really proud of him.

Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.

By the time we got a camera it was gone,