Gene Wilder Quotes

I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me.

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• I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.

  

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• In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'

  

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• In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.

  

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• Fashion breaks my heart.

  

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• Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.

  

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• I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.

  

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• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

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• When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

  

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• Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

  

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• I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.

  

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• I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.

  

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• The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.

  

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• It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.

  

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• Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.

  

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• Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?

  

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• I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.

  

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• You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?

  

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• My parents being from Nigeria deeply informs all my social justice and human rights work.

  

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• The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don't seem to take much pleasure in our buying, it's because we're engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves . . . as suppliants admitted to a shrine.

  

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• No art is superior to another one, but every art looks for expertise and perfection. This is life, which continues; this is why there is no death. There is continuation. There is no silence. There is a continuation of thought.

  

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• Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

  

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• I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me.

  

  Gene Wilder
  • Pretty
  • Death
  • Philosophical