James L. Brooks gives a speech at his Hollywood Walk of Fame star unveiling ceremony

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Film director James L. Brooks gives a speech at the unveiling ceremony for his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, on Thursday, December 11, 2025, at 6910 Hollywood Blvd, near the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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00:00James Albrook, stay in Hollywood!

00:07Thanks a lot.

00:11After enduring so many early days of fearing that I'd end up in the gutter,

00:18you can imagine how heavy it feels to have this solid hunk of sidewalk.

00:23There's no better job in the world than getting to work on a television series that's working,

00:29sitting in a writer's room where the only task is to make each other laugh.

00:35And there was a time, I swear it's true, when if you worked in television you could forget about being hired for a movie.

00:42Us TV folks were segregated to the less pretty side of the Paramount lot,

00:47where we made a living past our imaginations, doing work we loved,

00:52having the community which can only come when a TV series has found a large audience,

00:57and the frosting on the cake we were still looked at as underdogs.

01:02I need a number of heartfelt thank yous for the number of people who populate the

01:06couldn't have done it without you corner of my life.

01:09Grant Tinker, Dana Walden, Matt Groening who thought of the Simpsons while in the waiting room

01:15about to meet with me for the first time.

01:18And from there he and Sam Simon and I ran with it.

01:22Richard Sakai who went from being the world's worst BA to the world's best head of a TV company.

01:29Simpsons showrunner Matt Selman, Alan Bergman, Steve Aspel, David Greenbaum,

01:35and every former class clown, misfit, and great soul who has worked in the writers' room stretching back more than 50 years.

01:43And shout out of shout outs to those of us who knew not in the rear view mirror,

01:48but as we were doing it that the making of the Mary Tyler Moore Show and Taxi and the Simpsons was and is the time of our lives.

01:56I want to thank my family for all the love, everybody at Gracie Films who likes me,

02:03Al Jean, Jamie and Danny, Mary Lou Henner, Melissa Cates, Meredith Lipsky,

02:11and last and you better believe it not least, Bob Iger, and everyone at Disney, my home studio.

02:18Francine Maisler, the premier casting director we have, whose best casting was that she introduced me to the woman who,

02:27everybody who knows me knows saves my tail, Jennifer Brooks.

02:36And that's it, what a lucky dog I am to have you, honey.

James L. Brooks gives a speech at his Hollywood Walk of Fame star unveiling ceremony

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