Wilbert J. McKeachie Quotes
What could be more interesting to students than their own behavior and that of others?
Quotes to Explore
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When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.
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For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
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As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.
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It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to decide what has to go.
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I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.
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I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.
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When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.
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I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot.
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At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
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A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'
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I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana.
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Education is very important to me.
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The difficult thing for me is that I want basically to be a good man. That's what I want to be.
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God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.
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A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.
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I really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling.
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What could be more interesting to students than their own behavior and that of others?
