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

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.

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

I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.

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.

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

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

I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now.

My wardrobe consists of antique clothes, many of my designs, plus shoes and shirts from Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart.

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

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.

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow of oaks.

And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.

Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

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.

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

They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.

My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.

We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying the torch.