Irwin Winkler Quotes

I have an Oscar on my mantel.

Irwin Winkler

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• The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • People
  • Problem
  • How

• My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Real
  • Man
  • Me

• From an early age onward, it was said that 'Ingmar has no sense of humor.'

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Age
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• I used to try to bully my friends into imitating the Spice Girls on the playground.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Friends

• 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.

  

  Kathryn Hahn
  • Why
  • Character
  • Comedy

• 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.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Inspiration
  • Actor
  • Writer

• When you're doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • Character

• 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.

  

  David Walliams
  • Life
  • Comedy

• 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.

  

  Bruce Dern
  • America
  • Help
  • River

• I'm like a sponge: I like to listen.

  

  Maureen Chiquet

• 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.

  

  John Lubbock
  • Earth
  • Sea
  • Sky

• 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.

  

  Jeffrey Ross Hyman Ramones
  • Up
  • Music
  • Business

• The thing that shocks people... is that I mean what I say. I don't use hyperbole.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • People

• 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.

  

  Lindsay Wagner
  • People
  • True
  • High

• 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.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Party
  • Church
  • Catholic

• Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do.

  

  Emily Oster

• The romance stuff is easy. A sex scene... that's hard, because you don't know what to do. Those scenes are awkward.

  

  John Turturro
  • Sex

• Aye, it is hard when those we love leave the world. No denying it.

  

  David Gemmell
  • World

• I'm the only person who's ever opened the Oscars or done a spot on the Oscars without a script and having it on autocue.

  

  Paul Hogan
  • Open
  • Script
  • Oscar

• No, I haven't asked for a guy's number, but I've always wanted to.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Guy
  • Always
  • Wanted

• But as we went on, and you keep practicing and rehearsing more and more fight scenes, it clicks and you just get it. It's almost like a soccer game. If you take enough shots on target, one of them is going to go in. As soon as it does, something happens and it just registers. I found it a lot easier after that, which was about three-quarters of the way through the shoot.

  

  Luke Pasqualino
  • Game
  • Fighting
  • Enough

• I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Business
  • Job
  • Care

• Haven't shed a single tear, but I'm hurtin' down inside.

  

  Capital Steez
  • Tear
  • Hurting

• I have an Oscar on my mantel.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Oscar