Charles Wagner Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.
-
I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.
-
I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
-
I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
-
A teacher should have a creative mind.
-
I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
-
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
-
I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.
-
My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
-
Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
-
Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you are, that's a goddess.
-
The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
-
Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.
-
A mother will come up to me and say, 'Will you meet my son? He loves you. He watched 'How to Train Your Dragon' a thousand times.'
-
I'm a bed monster.
-
I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to do are something that an average actor would do.
-
I'm not a big planner; I decide by intuition.
-
Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.
-
It's so silly. All you do is get the heck out of your body when you die. My gosh, everybody's done it thousands of times. Just because they don't remember, it doesn't mean they haven't done it.
-
Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.
-
Taking constructive criticism from others is required to get to the next level.
-
Truth is not always injured by fiction.
-
When you stop worrying about all the things that can go along with playing in a band and you let go and do it because it's fun to do, things seem to work.
-
Joy is not a thing, it is in us.
