26 Quotes by Joe Brooks

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

I was a little nervous going in because we haven't lost any and that adds a little pressure. But we had a lot of guys step up just like they have all year.

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.'

We want to try to merge some of the things that happen in Belfast to draw more people to the festival. If we can merge them to us, certainly we're broadening our base.

We've had two pretty good meets. I've really been surprised that we've been running this well this early. But we've got a lot of meets this season.

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.

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

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