Gene Wilder Quotes
I don't want to do 'Hamlet.' I don't want to do Robert Redford roles or Mel Gibson roles or Kevin Costner roles, because I'm not going to be good at them.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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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.
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Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
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It is possible in this world to be pretty and funny and successful all at the same time.
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I never met Paul McCartney.
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This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years.
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You come to work knowing you're going to do good work without any doubt. You can go where you need to go and nothing is wrong and you pick the rightnesses out. If something doesn't work, you let them go, but you don't hold onto those wrongnesses. You just hold onto the rightnesses, so it's a playing field that anyone would want and feel much more comfortable with.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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I don't want to do 'Hamlet.' I don't want to do Robert Redford roles or Mel Gibson roles or Kevin Costner roles, because I'm not going to be good at them.
