Luke Wilson Quotes

It's nice, though, getting older and being able to do different roles.

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• Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Opportunity
  • Action
  • Survival

• What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
  • Important
  • Best

• My father was a lawyer.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Father
  • Lawyer

• I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Different
  • Know
  • Street

• No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Life
  • Positive
  • Negative

• A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Good
  • Composer
  • Imitate

• I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Preparation
  • Dwell

• I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • School
  • You
  • Win

• I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • People
  • Important
  • Animals

• Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Amazing
  • Dating
  • Skills

• I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Political
  • Problem
  • Understanding

• Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Women
  • Money

• I think the reason I love 'Antiques Roadshow' is that it is sort of like the lottery. There's the chance a regular Joe could walk in with anything and come out close to a millionaire. There's the thrill of the find.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Think
  • Like
  • Reason

• My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • You
  • Road
  • First

• A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Mind
  • Hand
  • Logic

• I love working in New York.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Love
  • Working
  • New York

• I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Life
  • America
  • Architecture

• It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Important
  • Country
  • Children

• The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.

  

  Bill Forsyth
  • People
  • Business
  • Movie

• The record is definitely a musical journey. It's kind of all over the place, which I like.

  

  Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe
  • Journey
  • Place
  • Record

• I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting. The more different they are, the bigger the challenge.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• I think for a lot of people that had seen me do 'Snabba Cash', after watching 'The Killing,' I think they got a sense that I could do different kinds of characters.

  

  Joel Kinnaman
  • People
  • Different

• I try to stay away from processed foods. I eat lean meats and get as many veggies as I can on my plate, so when mum calls me on a Sunday, I can tell her I'm eating enough veggies! I love pasta, but I don't eat carbs a whole lot, and I love fruit.

  

  Luke Mitchell
  • Sunday

• It's nice, though, getting older and being able to do different roles.

  

  Luke Wilson
  • Different
  • Nice