Wim Wenders Quotes

There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.

Wim Wenders

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• I remember starting out and covering songs.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Remember
  • Songs
  • Starting

• It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

  

  Manly Hall
  • Chaos
  • Step
  • Boredom

• I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Work
  • Never
  • Thought

• If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.

  

  Dan Barber
  • World
  • Great
  • Food

• I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• It usually starts with the director and any other creatives who may be involved at the start. It's a collaboration. I bring what I have naturally and, hopefully, what they cast me for, and then we start playing and tweaking until we have what they feel's right. It helps to have some artwork to inspire me, but I don't always get that luxury.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • May
  • Inspire
  • Collaboration

• Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Gender

• In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Love
  • Desire
  • Woman

• But, I do think, on a very simplistic level, that we can project onto dogs because they are so innocent. They don't come with a lot of baggage.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Thinking
  • Dog
  • Innocent

• Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement - will be left behind.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Ignore
  • Behinds
  • Storytelling

• Anyone with a internet connection and an idea can develop an audience

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Ideas
  • Audience
  • Connection

• For as long as there's life, for as long as we have things happening in the world, for as long as people haven't been able to work it, for as long as people are not trying to work it out, for as long as there's crime, destruction, hate, bigotry, for as long as there is a spirit that does not have love in it, I will always have something to say.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• God judges us on the basis of the miraculous atonement by the Cross of Christ.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Judged
  • Cross of Christ

• My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Movies
  • Stage
  • Background

• Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Life
  • Family
  • Education

• I would like my art to be about the possibility that each of us has to realize our connectedness with this great Spirit, whatever you want to name it, our inherent Buddha nature, Christ consciousness, primordial reality, the ground of being, God. Whether you want to go for a personal or impersonal perception of Spirit, is up to the individual.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Up
  • Great
  • God

• I understand shipping - you have to expect to pay for the stamps or for the freight company - but what's this handling they always have? How much does handling cost, anyway? I don't want a lot of people handling something I'm going to buy before I get it. How much would it cost if you didn't handle it before you sent it to me?

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Company
  • Doe

• Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die

  

  Gary Hirshberg
  • Business
  • Management
  • Dies

• I can’t imagine ever giving up theater; it’s been a part of who I am since I was eight years old.

  

  Stephen Wallem
  • Theater
  • Part
  • Who I Am

• There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.

  

  Wim Wenders
  • Actors
  • Dancer