Eileen Wilks Quotes

Dogs make sense. They understand hierarchy and the need to cooperate. They come when you call them. A cat though—a cat will take your number and get back to you. Maybe. If he’s in a good mood.

Eileen Wilks

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• A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

  

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• The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.

  

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• Can anyone seriously contend that whether a 14-year-old boy, who thinks he is a girl, gets to use the girls' bathroom is a civil rights issue comparable to whether African-Americans get the right to vote?

  

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• Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!

  

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• When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.

  

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• I run about four to five miles, three days a week. I have four young children, so pretty much the only time I can get away is real early in the morning.

  

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• There are two books that impressed me when I was very young. One was 'The Adventures of Augie March' - the idea of having something so generous, and so adventurous and improvisatory. The other was 'The U.S.A. Trilogy,' by John Dos Passos.

  

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• I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets.

  

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• I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

  

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• China's movie industry is growing a lot faster than that of the U.S.

  

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• Everything in culture moves in a cyclical way.

  

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• I always feel scared and insecure on a film set. I don't know any other way.

  

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• Dogs make sense. They understand hierarchy and the need to cooperate. They come when you call them. A cat though—a cat will take your number and get back to you. Maybe. If he’s in a good mood.

  

  Eileen Wilks
  • Needs
  • Mood
  • Cat