Owen Wilson Quotes
I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.
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I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
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That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
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People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.
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I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.
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When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
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The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates.
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I think God has blessed this country with enormous natural resources, and we should pursue all of the above. We should be developing oil, and gas, and coal, and nuclear, and wind, and solar, and ethanol, and biofuels. But, I don't believe that Washington should be picking winners and losers.
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Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.
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I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.
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As a filmmaker, you want people to understand and get what you do, and it's a lot to ask for.
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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I'm a big fan of Nora Ephron, who believed everything is copy, and I agree.
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If somebody honks a horn in Cleveland, they're saying 'Hi.' It's so rare to be honked at in anger. When we have merging traffic, we just interweave. There's real courtesy.
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I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.
