Irwin Winkler Quotes
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The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
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My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.
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From an early age onward, it was said that 'Ingmar has no sense of humor.'
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I used to try to bully my friends into imitating the Spice Girls on the playground.
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A lot of actors are like, 'Why do I do this? My character wouldn't do this? This doesn't make sense.' And in a comedy, you kind of just need to walk into the door.
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I've always looked to that play, 'Virginia Woolf,' for a cue - as far as any cue I might need as an actor for inspiration or as a writer.
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When you're doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.
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I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.
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I've always thought that if Israel really wanted to solve the problem, they'd just start tomorrow and push right to the Jordan River, and anything in their way goes. They don't need America or someone else to help.
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I'm like a sponge: I like to listen.
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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
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When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.
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The thing that shocks people... is that I mean what I say. I don't use hyperbole.
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A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.
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I am the Democratic Party's candidate for president who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters - and the church does not speak for me.
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Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do.
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The romance stuff is easy. A sex scene... that's hard, because you don't know what to do. Those scenes are awkward.
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Aye, it is hard when those we love leave the world. No denying it.
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It's an incredible honor, and it's so unlikely. I took a stab at doing this, and it's been extremely well received. ... Phil has gotten an enormous amount of attention, all of it well deserved. I think we've gotten our fair share, and whatever shakes out in terms of Oscar stuff is fine.
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I've found that men I've dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I've found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren't competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been... challenging.
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White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage.
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Your bird drinks whiskey and eats tobacco?" The old man frowned."Just be lad he doesn't like eatin' scrawny boys that don't know their way 'round the Otherworld.
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Never is liberty more easily lost than when we think we are defending it.
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I have an Oscar on my mantel.
