Gene Wilder Quotes

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• Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Good
  • Know
  • Best

• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Like

• I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Friends
  • Know
  • Me

• I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Born
  • Pessimist
  • I Was Born

• But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Me
  • Now
  • Blonde

• In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Day
  • Best
  • Three

• I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Hair
  • Pink
  • Fifteen

• Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Saying

• Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • History
  • Past
  • Study

• I cannot abide being bored.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Being
  • Bored
  • Cannot

• At the end of the day, I am not my dad and have my own journey to make.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Dad
  • Day
  • Journey

• The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Earth
  • Rights

• If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Know
  • Mean
  • Silly

• My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Live
  • Man
  • Perfect

• If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Done
  • California
  • Anywhere

• Historically, I think you can really judge a person by their shoes.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Think
  • Judge
  • Shoes

• I did grow up in a military family but lacked the perspective to grasp the cognitive dissonance carried by most people who serve in the armed forces or the circumstances that push lots of folks into the military. I don't blame G.I. Joe or Rambo for that atmosphere, but they certainly reflected the final stage of a two generation cultural myth.

  

  Nate Powell
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• 'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thankful

• As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Game
  • Political
  • Politics

• The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male.

  

  Bill Bixby
  • American
  • Comedy

• Actors, like it or not, their voices carry deeply into the culture: people look towards them for attitudes, for right or wrong, and today, the mainstream media doesn't really balance the unheard.

  

  Mark Ruffalo
  • People
  • Today
  • Culture

• As Democrats, when we try to determine who or what allowed Donald Trump to become president, we should look in the mirror.

  

  Jason Kander
  • Trump
  • Mirror

• Mel Brooks is one of the few authentic geniuses working in comedy in America today.

  

  Gene Wilder
  • America
  • Today
  • Comedy