Oscar Wilde Quotes
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Quotes to Explore
-
If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
-
You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.
-
Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
-
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
-
At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
-
I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
-
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
-
I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
-
I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
-
I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
-
I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
-
My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
-
My sister and I had resolved never to become teachers because the job seemed to demand so much. My mother always seemed to be working. Our dining room table was cluttered with papers waiting to be read and graded.
-
People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
-
French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
-
My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
-
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
-
Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
-
This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
-
I'm really into my photography and am trying to catch up with digital generation - I was used to the old 35mm cameras.
-
It is so liberating to really know what I want, what truly makes me happy, what I will not tolerate. I have learned that it is no one else's job to take care of me but me.
-
I used to love going and playing jam sessions, doing things spontaneously. I can't do that anymore. Everything you do is documented, nothing is casual anymore.
-
The word vagina is a beautiful word, like all words that have v's and g's in them, like gavel, or evangelical. I love vaginas, and evangelicals. I fucking hate gavels though.8
-
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
