David Wenham Quotes

Well you just have to own it, I suppose. Own the character, which is difficult.

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• I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Army
  • Year
  • Soldier

• People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Money
  • Globalization

• My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • School
  • She
  • Mother

• I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Think
  • Enjoy
  • Choice

• We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Need
  • Size

• Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Environment
  • Hollywood
  • Got

• I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • People
  • Believe
  • Ahead

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• I'm a warrior for the middle class.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Class
  • Warrior
  • Middle

• We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Great
  • Country
  • Trust

• I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Army

• Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Reality
  • Political
  • Color

• A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • World
  • Man
  • Die

• I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Space

• I love India.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Love
  • I Love
  • India

• When I was doing fringe theatre, my ambition was to do repertory. When I got to rep it was to do national theatre; then it was t,o get a couple of parts in television. I never had this great desire to overreach myself. I was too busy enjoying acting. I was just obsessed with it.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Desire
  • Myself

• The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Today
  • Best
  • inspirational

• You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Care
  • Lucky
  • Medical

• A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Soul
  • Suffering
  • Meaning

• Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the script itself and the character was really interesting.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Time
  • Character
  • Interesting

• Other kinds of movie stars, it's a different thing, they bring their persona to the part and that's what people like to see, and they are not really transforming in terms of their character.

  

  Joel Coen
  • People
  • Different
  • Character

• I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it.

  

  Claire Bloom
  • Ambition

• Part of what horror is, is taking risks and going somewhere that people think you're not supposed to be able to go, in the name of expressing real-life fears.

  

  Jordan Peele
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• Well you just have to own it, I suppose. Own the character, which is difficult.

  

  David Wenham
  • Character