Cornel Wilde Quotes
You can't get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama.
Quotes to Explore
-
I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
-
I'm afraid to fail again.
-
Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
-
The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
-
I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
-
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
-
Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
-
In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.
-
It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
-
I'm not the girl next door.
-
People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no money, and so they are insecure. My advantage is I don't value money that much. It's an easy thing for me to let go.
-
A different language is a different vision of life.
-
In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
-
I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.
-
One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
-
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
-
Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
-
My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
-
One of my main agenda right from the beginning has been cost rationalization, and we have done a lot of cost rationalization.
-
You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.
-
I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.
-
I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as much out of it had I gone when I was 18.
-
Only in the steady and constant application of force lies the very first prerequisite for success. This persistence, however, can always and only arise from a definite spiritual conviction. Any violence which does not spring from a firm, spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain.
-
You can't get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama.
