Irwin Winkler Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
-
I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.
-
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
-
You have to find out how to become the character.
-
For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.
-
There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
-
Throughout the day, I'll make a lot of green smoothies or salads, and then when I travel, I try my hardest to just keep up the regime. It's not always easy, but I do my best.
-
I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.
-
My goal isn't to shock.
-
I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
-
What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.
-
I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
-
I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
-
You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
-
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
-
The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
-
There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
-
My childhood was appalling.
-
I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.
-
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
-
In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.
-
I'm very down-to-earth and approachable, and I can be one of the guys and watch sports... I like to cook - I'm like the girl next door.
-
Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
