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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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.
Nastassja Kinski
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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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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.
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I had a holiday job in a kitchen, but I think we'll draw a polite veil over that. There was nothing joyous or creative about it. And none of this helped my studies.
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The horror of a death without dignity has so much implications for the people who are left behind.
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The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
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That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.
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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.
