Gene Wilder Quotes

When you fall in love, and you're very young, you think that that's the love of your life. And maybe it is, but it usually doesn't turn out that way.

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• Nothing is unfilmable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nothing

• The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Great
  • Together
  • Parents

• I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Important
  • Why
  • Better

• We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Live
  • Mystery
  • Busy

• Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Friends

• Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Band
  • Favorite
  • Jersey

• You have to relish the challenge of television.

  

  Laura Linney
  • You
  • Challenge
  • Television

• Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Kids
  • Past
  • Know

• In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • American
  • India

• I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Work
  • Imagination
  • Beauty

• Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Time
  • Risk
  • Failure

• I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Never
  • Just
  • Watched

• I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Wanted
  • Early
  • Figured

• I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.

  

  J. R. Celski
  • Up
  • Love
  • Single

• I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Future
  • Stop
  • March

• The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Mind
  • Perception
  • Act

• I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Good
  • Character
  • Bad

• I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Important
  • Look
  • Plan

• Comic books are a big passion of mine.

  

  Taran Killam
  • Passion
  • Books
  • Big

• Modeling is fun, but unless it's runway, it's just not my thing.

  

  Meagan Tandy
  • Fun

• I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• In the film world, and I know this from just talking to other people, that I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor, and the fact is I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

  

  Marie Dressler
  • Life

• When you fall in love, and you're very young, you think that that's the love of your life. And maybe it is, but it usually doesn't turn out that way.

  

  Gene Wilder
  • Life
  • Fall