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

• 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.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Stuff
  • Terms
  • Oscar

• On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay!

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Play
  • Road
  • China

• I do hope your Christmas has had a little touch of Eternity in among the rush and pitter patter and all. It always seems such a mixing of this world and the next - but that after all is the idea!

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Hope
  • Idea
  • Christmas

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Great
  • Men
  • Business

• If only, if only, the moon speaks no reply; Reflecting the sun and all that's gone by. Be strong my weary wolf, turn around boldly. Fly high, my baby bird, My angel, my only

  

  Louis Sachar
  • High
  • Strong
  • Baby

• I have an Oscar on my mantel.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Oscar