Joe Brooks Quotes (10 Quotes)

We're pleading with you. Come with us and let's make this thing something the midcoast can be proud of.

We want to change the location to make it closer to what it should be, the bay festival.

Look, I'm an easy mark, ... But was 'You Light Up My Life' a vanity production No one thought I could do that, either. I only got to do it because my investment adviser had put me in cattle the year before and all the cattle died. He felt guilty so he raised the money for the film. Even when it was done, nobody wanted it. I finally had to go to Columbia and say 'You've got to put out this film. You simply have to.'

This is the only truly original show now on Broadway. It doesn't come from any other play or film or anything like that.

If the full community is not involved in this, we are just rowing our boat upstream.

I'm not pointing any fingers, and I'm not finding fault with the harbor committee. They're doing just as they see fit. We thought that perhaps the community would embrace it, that it would become something they could call their own.

That is our goal - to bring enough people downtown. We hope to have 10,000 people downtown if we promote it properly.

I didn't want to take the show out of town. This is my home. I felt like I wanted to put it up here first. We did three readings and two workshops. And you know, I thought that was good enough.

We feel now that the kinds of things we felt were needed to make the transition down to the waterfront were not there. We realized it would not work without the support of the entire community.

That's like a state meet. There were 14 teams there ranked in the top 20. It's actually bigger (than the state meet). The quality of the competition was very good.