Owen Wilson Quotes
It isn't so much that I choose the roles - I mean, I guess there's a little bit of a selection process - but it's more just what people offer you.
Quotes to Explore
-
I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
-
I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
-
Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
-
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
-
Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
-
I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
-
Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
-
Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
-
It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
-
We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.
-
I guess John Wayne would be one. I just respected the way he acted.
-
You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.
-
People think about Bitcoin incorrectly. They think about it as currency or about gold or hoarding, speculation, about how much money do you make. When really, what it is is an API for programmable cash transactions.
-
There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.
-
I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible.
-
In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.
-
Manus haec inimica tyrannisEnse petit placidam sub libertate quietem.
-
If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
-
The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.
-
I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.
-
When you're 10, 11, 12, and you're watching your idols, you feel like you know them. I found more in common with these people when they talked in interviews than I did with my classmates.
-
There are certain things that make restaurants work and a certain kind of DNA that people who excel in restaurants need. But it's a lot like life, in the sense that you get out of it what you put into it.
-
'At Freddie's' takes place in 1960s London at the Temple Stage School for child actors. It has a plot that makes you feel sorry for the people who have to write summaries on the backs of books.
-
It isn't so much that I choose the roles - I mean, I guess there's a little bit of a selection process - but it's more just what people offer you.
