Gene Wilder Quotes
What do actors really want? To be great actors? Yes, but you can't buy talent, so it's best to leave the word 'great' out of it. I think to be believed, onstage or onscreen, is the one hope that all actors share.
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To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.
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My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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You do a play, or you go on set for the first day of filming: if you don't have nerves, and you don't have any kind of adrenalin pushing you forward, then something is wrong.
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You kind of have to celebrate the moment that you get to create something that you love that falls into the parameters of a 3-minute-and-20-second song, to try to be creative inside of those parameters.
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No, I don't run all the way. I'm not like an Olympic class runner.
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What do actors really want? To be great actors? Yes, but you can't buy talent, so it's best to leave the word 'great' out of it. I think to be believed, onstage or onscreen, is the one hope that all actors share.
