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

• I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways.

  

  Peter L. Berger
  • People

• The whole point of art, as far as I’m concerned, is that art doesn’t make any difference. And that’s why it’s important. Take film: you can have quite extreme emotional experiences watching a movie, but they stop as soon as you walk out of the cinema. You can see people being hurt, but even though you feel those things strongly, you know they’re not real.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Art
  • Movie
  • Difference

• I do believe that Bill Clinton never inhaled ...because when I met him, he had no idea who I was.

  

  Tommy Chong
  • Ideas
  • Mets

• I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Eye
  • Audience
  • Secret

• Any of these moments, you can turn it all around.

  

  Bobby Williams
  • Moments
  • Turnaround

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

  

  Gene Wilder