Gene Wilder Quotes

I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.

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• Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Wish
  • Ignorance
  • Bliss

• I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Up
  • Music
  • Believe

• Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Work
  • Book
  • Chef

• It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as a freelance writer when I had to quit my job at the 'Herald Tribune' to stay home with my young daughter.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Good
  • Home
  • Job

• Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.

  

  Ione Skye
  • Real
  • Me
  • Deep

• I'm a Virgo, and I know what I like.

  

  Zendaya
  • Know
  • Like
  • Virgo

• I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Life
  • Character
  • Rest

• I love music. I think it's a higher art form, in a way, than movies. You know, a film you see once, maybe twice. A song will follow you forever. It's a magical thing.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Music
  • Art
  • Way

• If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Believe
  • Dad
  • Problem

• I see Libya as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and a sovereign State of the nearly 200 members of the United Nations.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • See
  • Nations
  • United Nations

• I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Women
  • Hands
  • Kiss

• I wish we had more diversity.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Wish
  • Diversity
  • I Wish

• We know that the real lesson to be taught is that the human person is precious and unique; but we seem unable to set it forth except in terms of ideology and abstraction.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Real
  • Unique

• O, how wretchedIs that poor man that hangs on princes' favors!There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to,That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,More pangs and fears than wars and women have;And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,Never to hope again.

  

  Prince
  • Women
  • Hope
  • Sweet

• I look in your eyes I realize what you've sold meis love in a vacuum. Love in a vacuum.

  

  Aimee Mann
  • Eyes

• Free trade is not a principle; it is an expedient.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Free

• I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.

  

  Laurence Housman
  • God
  • Rest

• Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing. . . . If you wish to attain oneness with the Tao, don't get caught up in spiritual superficialities.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Prayer
  • Stream
  • Superficialities

• I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large extent, whether it's what we're listening to, what we're watching, what we're reading - it can have very little to do with one's immediate cultural environment. We are in a global culture in that respect.

  

  David Sylvian
  • Culture
  • Respect
  • Reading

• Talent is not enough. You need to be in the right place at the right moment.

  

  Hugo Lloris
  • Moment
  • Right
  • Place

• Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

  

  Og Mandino
  • May
  • Service
  • Better

• You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Happy
  • Campers

• I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.

  

  Gene Wilder