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.Gene Wilder
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My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
Nacho Figueras -
The patient decides when it's best to go.
Jack Kevorkian -
You have to find out how to become the character.
Kara Hayward -
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.
Hamlin Garland -
Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
Ha-Joon Chang -
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.
Wayne Newton
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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.
Sally Field -
I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
Patricia Velasquez -
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.
Ingrid Betancourt -
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
Babasaheb -
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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
Flip Wilson
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Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
Quentin Tarantino -
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
Edith Sitwell -
Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
Zac Posen -
I always miss my mom. Mother's Day would be just one more day I'd feel her absence but for the relentless commercialization. Thanks to that, this day is even harder to deal with.
M. J. Rose -
I love to act, but business is more interesting because it's more competitive and involves more people. There's more 'now' mentality and energy. Intellectually, it's a lot more interesting.
Larry Wilcox -
I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.
Gavin DeGraw
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What I think is sad about the rom-com genre is that it has adopted this pejorative title. I think the reason why there haven't been as many great ones is because we are fighting against the genre itself. If it is a romantic comedy then snuggle up to the fact that it can be a really earnest, refreshing feeling to feel good after a movie.
Lake Bell -
As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, 'I don't want to become like Bruce Lee's son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.' I just think my son is too lazy.
Jackie Chan -
Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
Brown Campbell -
You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for.Live well, my son.
David Gerrold -
Changing your perspectives will not only transform you but also the whole world.
Ji-Hae Park -
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.
Gene Wilder