Bill Irwin Quotes

I used to watch the 'Jackie Gleason Show' and Phil Silvers, those early TV things. And a lot of them were patterned on the silent comedies of the '20s.

Bill Irwin

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• I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Time
  • Film
  • Unknown

• I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Country
  • Want
  • Artist

• I have played Blair Cramer for 20 years, I feel a personal investment in the success of 'One Life to Live.' I love the show, I'm a fan of the characters, and I have invested in the journey these fictional characters have traveled.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Life
  • Live
  • Love

• I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Bookstore
  • Clerks
  • Credit Card

• Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Believe
  • Faith
  • See

• Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you're working smaller clubs, you're listening. You're feeling an energy, you're going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Truth
  • Feeling

• I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Trying
  • Dad
  • Thought

• Nobody can be like Mr. Bachchan.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Like
  • Nobody
  • Mr

• I think I'm a fun flatmate. I'm always cheerful. I go on tour with my band so it's 12 people on one bus and I feel like I'm the one who's happy in the morning. I'm not a chaotic person, but I might slack off on doing the dishes from time to time.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Time
  • Happy

• I love singing. I love singing at home.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Love
  • Home
  • Singing

• We've got these stereotypes, and I think there can be some trouble when we force these on people.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Think
  • Stereotypes

• If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that's just the way it is with me.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Character
  • Way
  • Me

• A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Great
  • Team
  • Sacrifice

• As a founder of two organizations that recruit top college graduates to expand educational opportunity, I've spent a lot of time examining what's at work in successful classrooms and schools over the past two decades.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Time
  • Work
  • Past

• The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Wise
  • Creative
  • Generosity

• I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Me
  • Acting
  • Cost

• I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Nice
  • Always
  • Feel

• We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal - fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our kitchen or getting that promotion - that it will make us happy. But the pain of our insecurity is hidden in all that racing around.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Believe
  • Happy
  • Pain

• I am the luckiest girl in the world. I learned that if I just keep a positive mental attitude, that I can go out there and do whatever I hope I can do. It's all mental in getting out there, and having confidence in myself, and having strength and knowing I can do it.

  

  Missy Franklin
  • World
  • Attitude
  • Having

• Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed, and butchered; but it has generally proved impossible to smother them; and when it has not, the society that has succeeded has always declined.

  

  Learned Hand
  • Time
  • Society
  • Beginning

• I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.

  

  Jim Cramer
  • People
  • Money
  • Small

• I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish – there was a bit of nobility about her.

  

  Sally Field
  • Wanted
  • Her
  • Bit

• I used to watch the 'Jackie Gleason Show' and Phil Silvers, those early TV things. And a lot of them were patterned on the silent comedies of the '20s.

  

  Bill Irwin