James L. Brooks
👤 Speaker
774
total appearances
Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
Blessed moment in my life.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
And I was alone with him backstage.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
As a kid reporter, I asked him a question that he hadn't been asked.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
how do you take care of your lips?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
Oh, really?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
And he lit up and he brought out draws of stuff.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
Turned out to be a major part of his prep for performing.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
I don't know how I did it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
I did letters.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
I somehow got myself backstage as a high school kid with Anne Bancroft, who was then just crazy, the gorgeous Toaster Broadway.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
And I was trying to flirt with her.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
I think she was in her 20s at the time.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
I'm a high school kid or something like that.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
She was very nice.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
I saw her standing in a circle.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
I second acted.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
You know what second acting is?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
No.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
I worked as an usher.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
And as I walked home, this is my afterschool job,