Robert Wilson Quotes

I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it.

Robert Wilson

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• Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Up
  • Country
  • Art

• Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Pain
  • Very

• Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Legislature

• I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • World
  • Matter
  • Seeing

• I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers.

  

  Zach Woods
  • Great
  • Help
  • Think

• According to our estimates, the Hungarians working in the U.K. altogether pay more contributions and taxes than the benefits that they get. So we belong to the world of the fair working people.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • World
  • Taxes

• To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.

  

  X. J. Kennedy
  • Free
  • Black
  • Color

• I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Man
  • Leading
  • Archetypal

• I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.

  

  J. Cole
  • Different
  • Best
  • Like

• I feel that I can't do certain things that have sent to me, scripts, because I think that really - I've been June Cleaver for so many years, because we went back, you know, and we did - 20-year hiatus we had - and we went back and made 105 new ones. And so I really feel very strongly that there are certain things I won't do.

  

  Barbara Billingsley
  • Know
  • Me
  • New

• My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • She
  • Small
  • Grandmother

• 'Firelight' is a beautiful story about a lot of young women. My character, Caroline, is a girl who has a bad boyfriend, and he ends up getting her locked up and incarcerated.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Up
  • Women
  • Character

• But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Great
  • Help
  • Song

• The private sector is growing so incredibly in India, in every city you have industries for whom building a concert hall would be nothing financially. But they just don't do it.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Growing
  • City
  • Building

• I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Best
  • Possible
  • Craft

• Men who are not loyal to their wives are foolish.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Men
  • Loyal
  • Wives

• I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

  

  Larry David
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Now

• My bedroom was filled with reading material: books salvaged from dustbins, books borrowed from friends, books with missing pages, books found in the street, abandoned, unreadable, torn, scribbled on, unloved, unwanted and dismissed. My bedroom was the Battersea Dogs' Home of books.

  

  Christopher Fowler
  • Home
  • Friends
  • Reading

• There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.

  

  Iain Banks

• Every time you touch those who have power over the media, they seek to stop you.

  

  Dario Fo
  • Time
  • Power
  • Stop

• I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Movie
  • Pretty
  • Career

• I think it's become an economic necessity for people to be able to learn and grow throughout their lives, because most people can't get through their entire career with one skill set. We have to keep reinventing ourselves.

  

  Chesley Sullenberger
  • People
  • Career

• I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it.

  

  Robert Wilson
  • Career
  • Idea
  • Theater