Owen Wilson Quotes
James L.Brooks is just a very original person. So that was definitely the luckiest, most important thing that happened to me meeting him. Then I guess also meeting Ben Stiller. He cast me in the only thing I think I ever auditioned for and got: Cable Guy 1996. And that led to us becoming friends.
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All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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I'll sleep when I'm dead.
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Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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We show our faces to demand human rights for everyone, everywhere.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
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I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.
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It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society.
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I was asked if I would play President Obama in 'My Name is Khan.' I didn't feel comfortable with doing it. Partly because he was still in office, but mainly because I felt that there were other people who were better suited to doing the role.
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Selling art is a lot different than making it.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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I'm a normal person and I don't have superpowers! I do normal things, too.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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I have a lot of faith in our showrunners.
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James L.Brooks is just a very original person. So that was definitely the luckiest, most important thing that happened to me meeting him. Then I guess also meeting Ben Stiller. He cast me in the only thing I think I ever auditioned for and got: Cable Guy 1996. And that led to us becoming friends.
